Sentences with phrase «cut deals with some publishers»

Oyster cut deals with some publishers that meant it paid them the wholesale price of the e-book each time one was read (beyond a certain percentage).

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Mudunuri declined to name the other publishers with which the company has cut deals.

Barnes & Noble yanked physical copies of 100 DC Comics titles from shelves after the publisher cut its first digital rights deal exclusively with Amazon for those books.

If Amazon had wanted to go head - to - head with Apple a few years ago — a giant who enjoyed monopoly control over both the online music business and the market for related hardware like the iPod — it might have offered record labels the opportunity to cut a deal that would have guaranteed them higher prices, just as Apple has done with publishers and the agency - pricing model.

This makes it much less attractive for Amazon to deal with publishers rather than cutting them out of the equation and dealing directly with authors or even with agents.

It sends a message and it will cut down on the annoyance of them having to deal with every big publisher's whining and fighting against ebooks.

It will be interesting to see if Ingram starts cutting similar deals with other hot - selling indies, offering them terms and royalty arrangements that publishers can't touch.

Printed books have to be moved around on pallets in trucks, and since micromanaging physical distribution in the UK would be hard and expensive for a publisher in the US, it make a lot of sense for the US publisher to cut a deal with a UK counterpart: I give you the right to some content, you print the books and distribute them, and we share the profits.

Apple's deal with publishers, as you may know, lets the publishers set the price for e-books (with a lowest - price guarantee) in Apple's iBooks store with Apple getting a 30 % cut on sales.

I would cut a distribution deal with a major publisher, become a publishing company, do more work — but keep all the profit.

According to an earlier report in Fortune, Steve Jobs cut a deal with the aforementioned publishers in early 2010 in an effort to drive Amazon's e-book prices up.

Unveiling the iPad, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs announced deals with five major publishers and an agreement that allows publishers to set higher prices while Apple settles for a 30 - percent cut.

The publishers (all of whom settled with the government before the trial) have tried to argue in the past that they were forced to cut a deal with Apple because of Amazon's (s amzn) monopoly — but when it gets right down to it, the real culprit is the DRM lock - in that the publishers themselves pushed for.

They also worried that Amazon was moving to disintermediate publishers, or to cut them out of the publishing cycle and deal directly with authors.

MJ: My guess is that since we're self - publishing In Maps & Legends now, the big difference is all the publishing and PR work we have to do as creators, instead of just writing and illustrating it and submitting it to various publishers and letting them deal with all that (and having them take their cut of the money as well).

But for this to work on any level Bookmate is going to need to cut deals with traditional publishers, a la Oyster and Scribd, to get current titles into the hands of these far flung readers.

Facebook in October introduced a new feature designed to let publishers sell subscriptions to their news sites directly on Facebook, but the social network could not work out a deal with Apple, preventing the news subscription options from being available on Facebook for iOS.At issue was Apple's demand for its standard 30 percent cut of any subscription revenue brought in through the Facebook iOS app, while Facebook wanted all money to go to publishers.At today's Code Media event, Facebook executive Campbell Brown said the dispute with Apple had been resolved, which means the subscription service tool will launch on iOS devices on March 1.