Sentences with phrase «fix ebook pricing so»
Apple colluded with the big publishers to jack up ebook pricing and to fix ebook pricing so publishers set prices and no one can offer discounts back when the iPad was first released.
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I'm so glad you mentioned this, because I really feel that this got lost in the whole hullabaloo about ebook price fixing.
Some have gone so far to claim that the publishers have formed a shady cartel to price fix ebooks.
While publishers are the ones who set the price of digital editions of children's books, it's disconcerting that a fixed - page children's ebook costs so prohibitively more than some of the app books that smaller publishers are developing for children that include such features as human - narration, highlighted read along text, touch - screen word pronunciation and foreground spelling, interactive word games, and more.
What keeps Big 5 ebook prices high are their fixed costs: expensive people working expensively in expensive office buildings in expensive (but oh so trendy) coastal cities.
So, it may be stating the obvious to say that ebook prices are falling, as we all knew they would fall once the agency - model price - fixing scheme gave way to more natural market competition.
So Apple and a group of major publishers stand accused of ebook price fixing.
So publishers are fixing the price in stone and EU officials don't like it, even though the French Competition Authority said in 2009 that the agency model was «a possible solution» for pricing ebooks.
Now, I could go on and on about agency pricing, price fixing, terms like «paperback ebook pricing» and «hardcover ebook pricing» and so on....
Book prices in Germany are fixed, so discounting ebooks isn't allowed.
The collusion and price - fixing case in 2010 was so much about the $ 9.99 price point, that when Publishers Weekly wrote an ebook about the trial, they entitled the book THE BATTLE OF $ 9.99.
For an in - depth legal position such as an ebook price fixing case, 1250 words is very little so if you have the ability why not harness the power of a picture being worth 1000 words and submit the equivalent of a 11250 word brief?