Sentences with phrase «from agency model»

There are around 10 books from Agency Model Publishers — all on sale for $ 2.99.

So Amazon Kindle readers are buying e-books, just not as many e-books from agency model publishers as they used to.

Worse, the general reading public doesn't understand that Amazon can't control the prices for those books from the agency model publishers, and it is the one on the receiving end of the bad customer feelings.

(Indeed, Amazon stands to make more money from the agency model; right now, it loses money on e-book sales, which it makes up for in Kindle sales.)

What we should be wanting is more widespread adoption of ebooks in general and getting away from the agency model and artificially high prices can do that.

Not exact matches

Soon after Spinak decided to change his business model, his business partner from one of his previous mergers left the agency to pursue other projects, Spinak says.

In doing so, it has transformed itself from an old - line modeling agency rooted in providing personnel to fashion - show runways, magazines, and mail - order catalogs into a hit new - media production company.

An agency has for each girl an account, and if they need to have the girl come from Arizona to New York in order to build her portfolio, the agency will front the expenses for her plane ticket, for paying the photographers, for printing the photos, for the physical portfolio itself, for the comp cards that need to be developed, for the retouching, for new clothes to go on castings with, for a model apartment for her to stay in.»

My (nonscientific) survey, which brought in more than 1,000 responses from digital marketing agencies and freelancers, spanning 16 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and several European regions, included queries about services covered, prices and payment models.

In 2009, he decided he wanted to do something more creative, and joined modelling agency Chic Management — which has worked with the likes of Miranda Kerr — with the goal of being «like [Hollywood agent] Ari Gold from «Entourage.»»

While he didn't invent the agency holding company model, he made it an unstoppable force, building the planet's largest ad agency company from an ownership stake he took in a British maker of baskets and household wares in 1985.

Hawkers Model Volleyball Tournament, in its eighth year, featured top modeling agencies as well as some of the top professional volleyball players from across the world, competing in a coed beach volleyball tournament Feb. 17 - 18 in Miami Beach.

This impressive milestone marks a long journey from a one - man operation providing small businesses with consistency in their marketing efforts, to a fully staffed hybrid agency model serving clients large and small in a wide variety of fields, including healthcare, law, software, retail and other B2B business, as well as non-profits.

The ACSI uses data from interviews with roughly 70,000 customers annually as inputs to an econometric model for analyzing customer satisfaction with more than 300 companies in 43 industries and 10 economic sectors, including various services of federal and local government agencies.

Chicago's new elaborate system of buoys and statistical models will monitor 16 of the city's 24 beaches, and Park District officials are seeking grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand the system to cover all beaches by next summer.

Embryo donation does, however, share some similarities because it involves non-genetic parenting, and for that reason is sometimes called «Embryo Adoption» by adoption agencies that use the adoption model to facilitate transfer from the parents who created the embryos to the intended parents.

Representatives from social service agencies in Chicago Lawn, Logan Square and Woodlawn will travel to New York City in the coming weeks to attend a multi-day conference and a «practitioner's institute» for organizations that are interested in launching Promise Neighborhoods, an initiative of the Obama Administration modeled on the Children's Zone.

Five of the original model developers and group leaders — Leila Beckwith, Ph.D., and Dane Fitzmorris M.A. from UCLA and Lynne Katz, Ed.D., Rosalie Miller, M.S.Ed., and Awilda Gonzalez from UM — continue to partner with CDC in implementing the Legacy program and sharing program resources with community - based agencies for use with families in their area.

We're often unprepared for this sadness, whether our kids know their birth families or not, because when many of us adopted our children, our training came from agencies that were grounded in the closed - adoption model, even if they had begun to stress open adoption.

To ensure that MWBEs have the opportunity to earn their fair share of the state's business, Governor Cuomo directed state agencies to double the current MWBE participation goal from 10 to 20 percent, ease bonding restrictions that they will face, and expand the Owner - Controlled Insurance Program model to improve opportunities for small businesses.

To ensure that MWBE's have the opportunity to earn their fair share of the State's business, Governor Cuomo directed State agencies to double the current MWBE participation goal from 10 to 20 percent and ease bonding restrictions that they will face and expand the Owner - Controlled Insurance Program model to expand opportunities for small businesses.

«The legal guidance and model policies my office released today give local governments the tools they need to protect immigrant communities from any over-reach by federal agencies.

A spokesman for the governor's Empire State Development agency said the changes were made based on feedback from businesses, and the administration is still «firmly committed to the model.»

Union officials and CSEA members who work in the state's youth detention facilities had been working with the agency to move from a correction model to a so - called «sanctuary model» which centers on reducing or eliminating restraints and creating a more therapeutic environment focused on staff building relationships with residents.

The union said reducing staff goes against the recommendations of a consultant working with the task force who believes the agency will need more staffing to successfully move away from a correction model to a more therapeutic model of care.

The team developed a model that was informed by not only the 2014 Sony attack, but also the theft of security clearance — related information for 21.5 million current and former government employees from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, allegedly carried out by Chinese nationals in 2014 and 2015, and the stealing of electronic files from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election that the Central Intelligence Agency attributed to the Russian government.

In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.

The agency would also cut $ 5 million from its next - generation weather model, slowing «the transition of advanced modeling research into operations.»

Prior to the earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency had modeled a 54 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2050, and a 90 percent reduction by 2100, with nuclear energy accounting for upwards of 60 percent of the country's total energy mix.

The research team drew information from huge stream - temperature and biological databases contributed by over 100 agencies and a USGS - run regional climate model to describe warming trends throughout 222,000 kilometers (138,000 miles) of streams in the northwestern United States.

In the future, Orton says, improved storm - surge models could predict where flood zones should be drawn given future sea level rise, which is now done nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency with data from past storms.

She has also led the agency's work to prepare for a probable gap in data from the series of polar - orbiting satellites that feed observations to NOAA's computer weather models.

To conduct their analysis, IU scientists gathered statistics on 400 fashion models from the Fashion Model Directory, a major database of professional female fashion models, tracking hair and eye color; height; hip, waist, dress and shoes size; modeling agency; and runways walked.

The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.

Using data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Multiple - Cause of Death Files (2006 - 2015), US Census Bureau, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, the study modeled associations between county - level drug - related mortality rates and economic, social, and healthcare environments.

The lung - on - a-chip model, funded by a contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, was featured in an article published in Lab on a Chip.

Previously, the most precise test of cosmological models came from measurements with the European Space Agency's Planck satellite of what is known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- a faint glow in the sky emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

They've forged connections with like - minded researchers worldwide, earned the trust of others who may have been skeptical of the efficacy of the open access model, and benefited from an expanding network of collaborators that now includes government agencies and researchers from academia and industry.

Last week at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins provided an overview of model organism support from his agency.

The 3D model was created from data harvested by the agency's Dawn spacecraft over the course of its year - long stay in orbit around the asteroid between July 2011 and September 2012.

This will require bringing together the functional experts (molecular biology, model organisms, and reverse genetics) with the «gene hunters» as well as a serious commitment from funding agencies.

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