Sentences with phrase «fighting over pricing»

The skirmishes that have been fought over price demonstrate the lack of reasoned, long - term maneuvering by publishers.

The Independent: Oxford don's legal fight over price rise signals trouble for phone giant.

Not exact matches

My own Canadian publisher, Penguin, has been fighting with Amazon over ebook pricing and generally trying to resist the digital revolution completely.

With the widened spread in oil prices between Edmonton and tidewater, however, rival customers from Washington, California and Asia are now fighting over the cheaper Canadian crude.

The Fed for example fought a difficult battle with inflation in the 1970s, hiking interest rates to recession - provoking levels and eventually winning a war of credibility over its ability to rein in price increases.

Cost - cutting by health insurers and concerns over drug pricing have made CVS's pharma - benefits unit seem like a liability to some investors; and in the head - to - head fight, Walgreens has grabbed some market share.

Up until a couple of years ago, the grocery price war had largely been fought over mainstream products like soda, soup and cereal, leaving higher - end organics to compete on quality.

It seems to me if the Fed continues to give its first priority to price stability, manifested in decisions to raise rates under questionable decision rules that elevate inflation - fighting over full employment, it will be pursuing policy objectives at odds with the wishes of the American people.

This occurs when the bulls are fight for control over long - term investors who previously bought at higher prices, and whom are therefore selling into strength of the rally in the hope of «just breaking even» on their original position.

After seven years of fighting deflation, central bankers may have at least won a battle, with implications for asset prices over the next 6 to 12 months.

If you are as tired as I am of our over medicated and over priced health care system, this is a way anyone could fight back simply by being healthier!!

Liverpool and Tottenham Fight Over # 17m Negredo: I don't understand the price for this one.

I don't know the financial component of such a move, but increasing the price of the Fight Pass to US $ 15 - 20 a month, which would include all the PPVs, some of these fight nights, and other assorted UFC - themed programming might make the average consumer more likely to purchase the Fight Pass over having to decide if spending $ 60 for a PPV is really wortFight Pass to US $ 15 - 20 a month, which would include all the PPVs, some of these fight nights, and other assorted UFC - themed programming might make the average consumer more likely to purchase the Fight Pass over having to decide if spending $ 60 for a PPV is really wortfight nights, and other assorted UFC - themed programming might make the average consumer more likely to purchase the Fight Pass over having to decide if spending $ 60 for a PPV is really wortFight Pass over having to decide if spending $ 60 for a PPV is really worth it.

One thing not to fight over is price.

Even the entirely false statement that Gordon Brown had sold off the Britain's gold reserves at knock - down prices to fund public spending went unchallenged, sacrificed to the strategy of fighting the 2015 election, not the 2010 one all over again.

In fight over journal pricing, University of Konstanz ends license negotiations with publisher

As we noted recently in our story on the fight between California and the Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency over corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, when fuel prices are lower, Americans vote for larger vehicles.

Apple, Pearson and Macmillan continue to fight the US Justice Department in reaching a settlement over their agency eBook price fixing.

A petition started by another group of authors and aimed at Hachette, titled «Stop Fighting Low Prices and Fair Wages,» garnered over 7,600 signatures.

Then on Wednesday, a post appeared on the Post's Wonkblog comparing the Amazon / Hachette fight to the debate over net neutrality: «Wanting to give consumers access to its products through the biggest single pipeline available, Hachette may relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further.»

At the time, Hachette was engulfed in a brutal fight with Amazon over e-book pricing, and the retailer had removed the buy button from some Hachette titles and delayed shipping on others.

Rather about adding proprietary DRM formatting to create two versions of mobipocket, an iTunes version and an Amazon version, they both should agree on one format (preferably without DRM) and then fight it out over such consumer - centric issues as price or buyer experience.

No longer content with simply demanding steeper discounts from publishers like Hachette — which is locked in a bitter fight with the e-commerce giant over book prices — Amazon is finally reaching its end goal: the complete dissolution of the traditional book business model through a vertically integrated publishing platform, from writer to Kindle.

The other way to fight it and generally sell more, is to offer great value that is over and above just the price of book.

Fortunately, I am not in these fights alone: competition between distribution channels will tend to drive prices and agency fees down over time.

This isn't like the battle between Amazon and the Big Six several years ago when they were fighting over e-book pricing.

New court reports this week suggest Apple (s aapl) is sinking ever deeper into legal quicksand, as the company fights a court judgment over ebook price - fixing that could ultimately cost it close to $ 1 billion dollars.

They have found a way to temporarily counter the second, by forcing Amazon to price eBooks no lower than $ 15, which is what the battle with Macmillan was fought over.

When considering the fight between Amazon and publishers over the price of e-books, it's easy to paint the giant book publishers as the bad guys.

It looks to be a fairly nice one (half an inch thick, less than a pound, no physical buttons) and reasonably priced at $ 250, but even the top - shelf Android tablets are fighting over Apple's table scraps.

RIM fought hard to win over the affections of tech distribution channel partners, who gave its PlayBook a wide berth until its price was permanently slashed last year.

I spoke with Douglas a few weeks ago, and stressed to him that these negotiations between Amazon and Hachette are over the price of ebooks, and that by urging Amazon to stand down and by emboldening his publisher with his PR moves, he is in fact fighting for a return to $ 14.99 ebooks.

They're fighting over E-book pricing.

Senior Amazon executive Russ Grandinetti has defended the company over its trade dispute with Hachette Book Group in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying that the online retailer is simply fighting for better prices for its customers.

Over the years, the Toronto finance executive has sent back cold meals, fought for advertised sale prices and enjoyed preferred seats on airplanes (a Holy Grail - level score for complainers).

The hard - core value purist hopelessly drooling over a great price... of some cheap micro-cap which trades by appointment, is at the mercy of its lenders, and is fighting a relentless battle against the decline of its business & industry.

Inexpensively priced, and delivering fun and games for all the family to enjoy, the vast majority of these one hit wonders hold enough content, and just enough draw, to drag together a bunch of like minded friends and family members for a fight over bragging rights — at least until the next cheap game arrives to grab their attention.

Inexpensively priced, and delivering fun and games for all the family to enjoy, the vast majority of these one hit wonders hold enough content, and just enough draw, to drag together a bunch of like minded friends and family members for a fight over bragging rights - at least until the next cheap game arrives to grab their attention.

Mortal Kombat XL also launched this month as a complete version of Mortal Kombat X. Despite the high $ 60 price tag It is expected to sell very well among fighting fans and therefore I'm projecting that it will sell over 200,000 units in the US during March.

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She fought the good fight without gimmicks over decades, prevailing in the market and now among collectors and museums in general, as money, as expressed in purchase prices, draws the attention of both.

The next failure to compromise came in the fight over adding a «safety valve» provision to limit unanticipated high costs from greenhouse gas restrictions, something Joe Romm and many others rejected out of hand at the time, even though Romm last year (around minute 37 in this videotaped panel discussion) noted the need for pragmatism to get things started: «The game changer for the world isn't between no price for carbon and a high price.

Bernardi, who helped establish «grassroots» groups to fight Australia's carbon price legislation, had been Abbott's shadow parliamentary secretary until he was forced to resign last year over remarks linking same - sex marriage to bestiality.

Since the thrust of your report is about the fight over cap - and - trade, isn't it more important to assess the fairness, albeit admittedly more difficult, of coverage on that issue — e.g., exaggerated alarmism over potential energy price spikes, etc. — than whether consensus science was reflected?

Inslee on 14 December proposed using a price on carbon to support the state's primary and secondary education system and end a long - running fight with lawmakers over how best to comply with a 2012 court ruling that said the state had not adequately funded its schools.

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

Big Coal is fighting for loopholes and safety valves to keep CO2 costs low, because if legislation passes that actually puts a serious price on CO2, coal's reign as a «cheap» energy source is officially over.

As house prices plunge and savings shrivel, divorcing couples are fighting over a shrinking cake.

In this week's Weekend Reads: America might get embroiled in a trade war over the price of Bourbon, and it's obviously worth the fight.