Sentences with phrase «fact agency publishers»

The fact Agency Publishers are so far behind others who had the foresight to invest in the technology is no excuse to pass that cost to the consumer.

Not exact matches

The publishers / Apple made out like there were all kinds of business reasons for the Agency Model, and with very few exceptions no one seemed to hone in on the fact that at least one person was specifically quoted as saying that the reason for it was that they didn't want readers to get used to the 9.99 price point.

If you're a genre reader, too, most of the titles you're likely to be interested in will in fact be from the big publishers that use agency pricing.

One last fact: Even after the price - fixing issue called «agency pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other ebook channel that comes online between now and forever, whatever price they want for an ebook.

First, ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.

Add into the mix the fact that publishers have admitted they make less money per title under the agency model than they did before and you have the answer to who is harmed.

Two of the reasons we ranked Publishers Marketplace so high on our list of literary agent lists are the fact that it's free to read profiles for literary agencies, and because you can find some literary agency profiles here that you won't find anywhere else (except the Literary Agent Undercover Directory of Literary Agents).

In fact, the kind of price control that the publishers have tried to assert over retailers through the agency model actually used to be flat - out illegal in the U.S. until relatively recently.

In fact, once the Apple Agency Agreements took effect, Publisher Defendants almost uniformly set e-book prices to maximum price levels allowed by each tier.

This is mainly attributed to the fact they can skirt the Agency model that lets publishers determine the price on books and will allow the company to undercut the competition.

Their advice is always sound, I would not think of approaching anyone that is on their «Thumbs Down» list, that person, publisher or agency has made enough errors to get caught in their radar, and as you will find out if you go against the advice given, there was in fact a valid reason.

As for being taken by Penguin alone, I'm not one who holds by coincidence and the fact that agency pricing sprang up with the introduction of the iPad and the iBookstore and that these publishers all demanded the same terms from Amazon at the same time is just one coincidence too many.

And, in fact, Greenfield points out that Forrester's James McQuivey probably foresaw things a bit more accurately than the «this means war» people when the Department of Justice's legal action against five of the Big then - Six publishers resulted in a rollback of agency pricing.

In particular, Snyder slammed Turvey repeatedly for a sentence in the testimony in which Turvey said he was «directly advised» by publishers that their agency contracts with Apple would not allow them to enter wholesale contracts with other retailers, like Google — when, in fact, other Google emails showed that this wasn't true.

Yet, Publishers don't — In fact, Publishers with their pricing patterns and the Agency Model are clearly showing that they are much more concerned with stopping the growth of dedicated eReaders.

It probably had something to do with the fact that the agency is owned by the Italian publishers association (Associazione Italiana Editori).

According to a federal court's findings of fact, agency pricing was imposed through a joint effort by five out of the six publishers — including Hachette — working in concert with Apple.

The clause addressed the fact that if Apple was using agency (with publishers setting prices) while Amazon was using the wholesale model (with Amazon setting prices at $ 9.99), Apple's prices wouldn't be competitive.

Amazon also uses this argument to defend its previous bullying of publishers when they agreed to switch to an «agency model» of pricing, referring to the practice as «illegal collusion» (though in fact, no publisher was ever prosecuted for collusion).

Point One: The complaint reads: «The fact that Apple brokered the simultaneous switch to the Agency model, and the Publisher Defendants agreed to standardize higher eBook prices, is amply demonstrated by a January 2010 interview in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs told Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal that Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing for eBooks was about to end:

Kobo continues to press their motion to rescind the ebook pricing consent agreements in Canada between the Competition Commission and the four agency publishers... In a memorandum of fact filed March 10, they [Kobo] reiterated their primary argument that «without a stay, Kobo will be irreparably harmed.

The publishers named in the suit insisted on agency pricing, which did in fact allow them to control the price of their own ebooks.

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