Sentences with phrase «ebook pricing wars»

Perhaps it's easy for me to say, being out of the ebook pricing wars now (i.e., safely retired), but much of the publisher angst over ebook pricing terms to libraries strikes me as responding to problems that haven't yet materialized, and in fact may not.

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What's clear, though, is that the ebook pricing wars are about to get very interesting.

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.

2 min readThe eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

The writing was on the wall as recently as 2 a.m. this morning, and an open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent has confirmed everything we suspected: Macmillan books were pulled from Amazon store as part of a strong - arm tactic in the coming eBook price war.

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Episode 5 discussed the ebook price war, how to mend a «broken» scene, and starting your own writing group.

The eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost -LSB-...]

In fact, Owen reports — in Apple is already fighting Amazon in the ebook price wars — she has tracked instances in which Apple takes the lead, undercutting Amazon — and Amazon's mighty computers, of course, then drop their prices to match Apple.

If publishers are able to resist the margin pressure in the face of this price war, they should end up doing well out of the ebook price war.

Not exact matches

(look up and verify) Scoff if you want, but I believe the big war machine is slowly churning to catch up with the times, as evidenced by the number of traditionally published books in Bookbub and the lower ebook prices of traditional titles.

The debate over whether e-version intellectual property should have the same price tag as «hard copy» intellectual property wars on, but the fact is that eBooks have been downpriced since their inception, and significantly so.

Amidst news of Amazon's apparent surrender today in the war with Macmillan over ebook pricing, the highlighted book on Macmillan's home page is Priceless, subtitled «The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)»:

The legal war over ebook pricing rages on but there's no need to avoid the skirmish.

According to an article in The Guardian, the current discount price war on ebooks is going to finally pull the plug on books.

When Amazon opened its Kindle store earlier this year, a huge price war broke out amongst the major chains forcing ebook prices down to 50 % or lower than the retail price.

The really big news is Google starting open war with Amazon by starting to sell ebooks, not to mention telling publishers they can sell ebooks for the same price as hardcover books.

It has a lot going for it — Wi - Fi, touchscreen, slide out keyboard, Samsung's brand name — and even with all the current ebook reader price wars they could have taken a little off the price and still carved out a market.

Traditional publishers started mounting a spirited pricing war with indie authors during late 2013 to regain the sub - $ 4 eBook market which they had surrendered.

The problem of course is that these price wars and ebook protests are driving a value perception home in consumers minds.

That store would have to have DRM - free eBooks and be willing to fight a price war.

Looks like Hachette has gone to war with its Australian ebook customers lately, with some spectacular price hikes.

Prior to the price cut, the Nook WiFi +3 G was directly competing with the Amazon Kindle 2 (latest generation) and it would be interesting to see if Barnes and Noble's action today will begin an ebook reader price war.

Twice now, Hachette and major publishers have waged wars with Amazon over the price of ebooks.

The emphasis on advertising may be an indication that the ebook reader price wars may have temporarily bottomed out.