Sentences with phrase «fear for publishers»

Together, he says, publishers and these subscription services have managed to create revenue streams without cannibalizing existing channels, as is often the fear for publishers in the American and UK markets.

Not exact matches

President Lyndon Johnson's administration feared her defection would disrupt relations with the Soviet Union, but after the Central Intelligence Agency helped stow her in Switzerland, American publishers offered her so much money for her memoirs that the government let her in on her own dime.

Adjusting to the new systems also poses a challenge for all involved, as well as a fear of the unknown, especially with publishers keen to keeping proprietary measures as a selling point for advertisers.

On another level, some publishers resent a central, NIH - run archive like PubMed Central because they fear that technical failures would affect all users at once, and because the government might impose restrictions in the future, for example, by ruling not to publish certain kinds of research.

The main players at the paper are its publisher Kay Graham (a very strong Meryl Streep, as a character finding her place in a world that doesn't seem to have one for her), who took over the job after her husband's suicide (The ownership of the paper belonged to Kay's family, but her father passed on responsibilities to her husband), and its executive editor Ben Bradlee (an iffy Tom Hanks), a shark in the newspaper world who's equally revered and feared.

There is always fear of Amazon becoming a monopoly, but Hachette, Apple, and four other big publishers were brought to court in 2012 for colluding to keep prices high.

Much like the headache of licensing ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.

Some publishers have balked at signing on, perhaps for fear of piracy, MacDonald speculates, but they might be getting it exactly wrong: Brenner thinks readers aren't demanding digital comics from libraries because they are going to pirate sites instead.

In the past, I've speculated that publishers have prevented the copy feature, fearing that users would spend hours copying books page by page for pirating.

I'll offer this one piece of advice to publishers who may now feel like they should back away from Goodreads for fear that they are sleeping with the enemy: Don't do it.

So there's been a lot of dinosaur thinking and fear of technology and wanting to do it the old way for publishers and agents and editors and everybody in the business because they're not math and science majors — none of them, for the most part — they're English majors.

(The majority of publishers contacted for this article chose not to speak on the record, citing their fear of retribution for divulging Amazon's tactics, which one publisher described as a «You do this, or we'll fuck you over» approach.)

To calm the fear of potential rampant piracy, publishers of e-books are opting for the more conservative DRM approach to protect their investments and the work of writers, but that comes with some risk to customer satisfaction.

To say ANY publisher is solely focused on digital is a pure example of fear mongering for clicks.

Concerned publishers, authors, and readers can and should band together over this issue, but I fear it will take the fall of B&N and Amazon being reasonable (the prior an eventuality, the latter a near impossibility) for us to effect any change in this area.

They have basically shifted over to being scouts for a few publishers and don't dare stand up on an issue for fear of angering a publisher.

But how can this be reconciled with the need for a commercial industry of publishers, booksellers and others who will have much more to fear from libraries when technology brings the local library to every home and mobile phone.

The publishers feared that lower retail prices for e-books might lead eventually to lower wholesale prices for e-books, lower prices for print books, or other consequences the publishers hoped to avoid, the DOJ said.

The Publisher Defendants feared that lower retail prices for e-books might lead eventually to lower wholesale prices for e-books, lower prices for print books, or other consequences the publishers hoped to avoid.

Many academic authors tell us they were afraid to request changes to the standard agreements for fear that the publisher would pull the plug on their books.

The Publisher Defendants feared that $ 9.99 would become the standard price for newly released and bestselling e-books.

In addition, higher prices for just one publisher's e-books would not change consumer perceptions enough to slow the erosion of consumer - perceived value of books that all the Publisher Defendants feared would result from Amazon's $ 9.99 pricinpublisher's e-books would not change consumer perceptions enough to slow the erosion of consumer - perceived value of books that all the Publisher Defendants feared would result from Amazon's $ 9.99 pricinPublisher Defendants feared would result from Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing policy.

The surprising commercial success of Umberto's Eco's Name of the Rose (1983), certainly the contemporary prototype of the literary thriller, historical division, legitimized genre - bending — even for those timid publishers who tend to fear any product that can't be pigeonholed.

According to the suit, publishers believed that Amazon's wildly popular Kindle e-reader device and the company's discounted pricing for e-books would increase the adoption of e-books, and feared Amazon's discounted pricing structure would permanently set consumer expectations for lower prices, even for other e-reader devices.

«This is because of their concerns about remote downloading, where a library member downloads a book on to a digital device via the internet, avoiding the need for a visit to the library at all... publishers and booksellers fear that it would be too easy to borrow a book for free.

Publishers Weekly has the right of it here: Observing that «there is no mistaking the fear that many of the commenters have of the prospect of competing with Amazon on price,» the DoJ noted that low prices and fierce rivalries are among the core ambitions of free markets and that contrary to many commenters views, «the goal of antitrust law is to use rivalry to keep prices low for consumers» benefit.

My biggest issue with agency pricing was that it was a knee - jerk reaction by the publishers not only to Steve Jobs» demand for it (assuming he actually made that demand) but also to their fear of Amazon.

... publishers believed that Amazon's wildly popular Kindle eReader device and the company's discounted pricing for ebooks would increase the adoption of ebooks, and feared Amazon's discounted pricing structure would permanently set consumer expectations for lower prices, even for other eReader devices.

Japanese publishers, already facing falling paper book sales, have so far been reluctant to digitise their books for fear that e-books could kill physical sales.

They recognized that their publishers weren't giving the sort of promotion they had hoped for but feared it was better than what they could do for themselves.

This is a clear reference to widely held fears that handing too much control to Amazon will turn publishers into price - takers as Amazon dominates the market for digital content.

I could see the first book or two in order to drive sales of the rest of the series, but I fear that authors and publishers giving away too many books for free smacks of desperation, and will have a «tragedy of the commons» affect, where no one is able to sell e-books anymore, but that's for another blog post.

Let's hope it never gets as bad as we fear it might, let's hope the centre can hold because by my estimation that us where the market for publishers exists.

And some of these publishers have dabbled with promotional opportunities at Amazon that major publishers have avoided for fear of making more profits alongside their biggest retail account (bizarre).

The other librarians were not in agreement with Marx's suggestion that libraries should consider introducing more «friction» into the lending of ebooks to address publishers» fears that library lending will destroy the nascent consumer market for ebooks.

I think that in the end what the publishers need to fear is not that Amazon will set the prices for their new releases, but that they'll take them over entirely.

Many publishers in the U.S. live in fear of the commoditization of ebooks and view subscription as the catalyst in a price race to the bottom for their titles.

The Wall Street Journal reports that many publishers refused to participate in Amazon's Kindle Owner's Library for fear it would debase the value of their existing catalogs, and they're right.

Amazon had a powerful weapon that no longer existed for Barnes & Noble: its cash supply and overall marketplace power would allow it to continue taking retail losses or miniscule profits on the big publishers» ebooks for years to come — or for however long it took Amazon, publishers feared, to be «the last man standing» in the book business.

Publishers» fear of digital media piracy is the reason most require DRM to be used on their ebooks (with no regard for the problems that creates for consumers or the artificial barriers it crEates in the marketplace).

There is certainly some fear that the largest chains are facing difficulty but there is clearly no real fear that print books will disappear in the near future suggesting that regardless of the exact shape of the print market, existing publishers will be best placed to reach it for the next while.

If major publishers can't get it right on a release this big, I truly fear for the future of traditional publishing.

Traditional publishers fear ebooks for two reasons: 1.)

This feature is highly controversial among publishers for fear of losing sales.

ePub2 will continue to have solid support in the market for many years to come, so publishers and authors should feel comfortable developing in this format without fear that the files will stop working.

Speakers at the 2016 FutureBook Conference in London emphasized putting disruptive technology to work for book publishers and readers, not fearing it.

But manga publishers, both in the US and Japan, are also to blame for their fear of New Media and their bungled attempts at digitizing their stuff.

For publishers, the biggest fear in the realm of digital comics is, of course, piracy - Â an area recently thrust into the limelight with the FBI's crackdown against illegal site HTMLcomics.com.

Keep in mind that Random House, the world's largest publisher by sales volume, still hasn't inked a deal with the iPad for fear of an all - out price war, meaning the entire battlefield could change overnight — especially if this rumor is true.

In my opinion, the Western AAA philosophy is slowly killing the video game universe, and unless someone like a Nintendo takes a stand against the status quo, I fear that more mid-tier publishers will continue to be casualties by a marketplace that has quickly become too narrow - minded for its own good.