Sentences with phrase «if agency pricing»

If agency pricing goes away, the company will be able to discount e-books the way it discounts print books and can likely return to its pre-agency pricing tactic of pricing New York Times bestsellers at $ 9.99.

Second, if agency pricing keeps up and digital sales grow while paper sales decrease, BN is seeing a loss of overall revenue as it is only getting 30 % of a sale versus 50 % of a sale (this is not an original thought of mine.

'' If agency pricing goes away, the company will be able to discount e-books the way it discounts print books...» Not quite.

Yes, if agency pricing goes then the whole system will have to adjust.

It calls its market share and revenues here as «negligible» and says this will happen in Canada if agency pricing goes away.

Not exact matches

The agency announced it will raise prices for the passes on Aug. 28, so act fast if you want one.

Putting up with a few shuttered federal agencies seems like an OK price to pay if it brings the extremists to the negotiating table in time for a compromise on the debt ceiling.

Fairbanks said another problem with Prop 61 is its linkage of prices paid by state agencies to the VA's price, which is not public information, and it is not clear if the state could compel disclosure.

If Issue 2, or the Drug Price Relief Act, passes, the act would require the state and state agencies, including Ohio Medicaid, to pay the same or lower prices for prescription drugs as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does.

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

«If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability,» the Fed's announcement stated.

The FOMC's annoucement after their meeting on Wednesday affirmed the Fed's QE3 policy, offering no changes, while stating, «If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the Committee will continue its purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities, undertake additional asset purchases, and employ its other policy tools as appropriate until such improvement is achieved in a context of price stability.»

The consumer ratings agency notes that pricing varies depending on where the individual lives, as geography dictates available sunshine and utility rates which ultimately determines if the innovative solar roof tiles makes sense as a purchase.

For all their official production measurements, OPEC uses an average of estimates from six «secondary sources», namely the International Energy Agency (IEA), the oil - pricing agencies Platts and Argus, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the oil consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and the industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, as an impartial adjudicator as to whether their output quotas and production cuts are being met, to resolve any potential disputes that could arise if each member reported their own figures.

If an agency mortgage backed security was bought at a price which was a premium to its face value, the investor will lose the difference between the premium and face value when its prepaid.

If you're truly looking for value betting on Super Bowl futures, don't look for these trendy teams whose prices are being over-inflated by square bettors and don't overreact to free agency hype.

While Phillips could help prevent defensive tackle from becoming a weakness in 2019 if Geno Atkins leaves in free agency, the Bengals will get a bigger instant upgrade if they take Price, as center is clearly the biggest area of need right now.

If this was really about saving the state money, the governor would support the cost - benefit analysis bill to require a cost - benefit analysis before state agencies contract out work to higher priced consultants.

The June measure was greatly watered down from the earlier Cuomo plan, and it includes exceptions to the «Buy American» rules, such as letting state agencies sign procurement contracts that include foreign steel if there is an emergency or it can be shown that U.S. - produced steel would hike the price of the work.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

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Asked if the higher pricing of e-books, in the wake of publishers» new agency agreements with Amazon, had also figured in the slowdown of e-book sales, Reidy noted that in the wake of publisher settlements over e-book price - fixing charges in the case with Apple, «I'm not supposed talk about pricing,» but added that «our data says that our pricing is effective.»

If Amazon had wanted to go head - to - head with Apple a few years ago — a giant who enjoyed monopoly control over both the online music business and the market for related hardware like the iPod — it might have offered record labels the opportunity to cut a deal that would have guaranteed them higher prices, just as Apple has done with publishers and the agency - pricing model.

Anonymous... I don't know that I would call agency pricing something that is leading to competition, but what it does do is level the playing field; especially if the retailers can still discount the prices.

E.g., if you're an SF / F reader and you're looking for Jim Butcher's latest, sorry, his stuff's under agency pricing, so you're going to pay agency pricing on it no matter who you buy it from.

If a retailer is saying you can't do agency pricing any longer and you're going to go from a 70 % cut of the price to a 50 % cut of the price; that's a big deal to them... but we don't know if that's the casIf a retailer is saying you can't do agency pricing any longer and you're going to go from a 70 % cut of the price to a 50 % cut of the price; that's a big deal to them... but we don't know if that's the casif that's the case.

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.

Three, if you take the time to shop around to the smaller sites or if you keep an eye on which publishers aren't operating under the agency model, you can find better prices.

But when I read the discussion that took place over the weekend at Paidcontent.org between Mathew Ingram and Laura Owen that is described as a «smack - down,» I scratch my head and wonder if anyone can make something more than an emotional and nostalgic argument to defend a practice (the likely illegal price - fixing scheme called «agency pricing «-RRB- that is just such a «subsidy» model.

Guess what, guys, if you have more books published by authors and publishers not following the agency model and their prices are lower than agency model e-books — often substantially lower — e-books prices will appear to be lower overall.

If you look at the recent decline in eBook sales, this is partly attributed to the abolishment of the Agency price model of selling books.

If publishers want agency pricing, they either must gain that stipulation by dint of negotiation, or sell elsewhere.

So, if an e-book has a price of $ 12.99 and the publisher gets 30 % of that under agency pricing, that starts the share of the pie the author gets to look at at $ 3.90.

Under those conditions if you think you are not in a state to write a perfect thesis, then you can take help from an online thesis writing help agency that can solve your problem at affordable price meeting your requirements.

But the shortsightedness of publishers falling fast for the Agency plan is that they actually think that if they keep e-books away from the customers by either delays or pricing, that customers will go to hardcovers or pay the 50 % higher price for a digital version.

If you believe that you have been affected my agency - model price - fixing and would like to share your concerns with the Department of Justice and the parties in this lawsuit before the proposed Final Judgment takes effect, you should put your concerns in writing and submit them no later than June 22, 2012.

Barnes and Noble is appealing the entire settlement, and if they lose the company would need to renegotiate ebook prices with ALL of those publishers to absolve the agency pricing and get new contracts for wholesale.

The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching ebook price fixing lawsuit between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.

LF: But if the DOJ bans the agency pricing model, how does that give Amazon a head start?

If you want all the detail, take a moment to see his article, but to summarize, his stance is that the Department of Justice (DoJ) should not take action to weaken or dismantle agency pricing for ebooks.

A useful post from Jane Litte at Dear Author, Did agency pricing help publishers and if so will they return to it when the ban is lifted?

Some wondered if the problem was associated with agency pricing — were only publishers who set their own ebook prices affected?

It looks as though the big tradpubs were * sure * that if they hiked ebook prices via agency they'd make scads more money from print books because ebooks would not be putting pressure on industry pricing.

If you see the first alternative, you know you are buying a book that was published by an author or publisher who never took part in agency pricing.

Prices might actually rise if Agency was abandoned.

Prior to the agency model Amazon was free to set whatever customer price they wanted for ebooks, even if it meant they were selling every single one of them at a loss.

Even if Apple and Amazon were on the same agency arrangement with a Publisher, and that Publisher were able to move the retail price of the e-book to the top of the Apple price tier and sell it for $ 12.99, the Publisher would still receive less revenue under the agency model: $ 9.10 instead of the $ 13.00 in revenue under the wholesale model.

This won't hurt Apple much financially, even if successful, but the legacy of the Agency Pricing move is still damaging Apple and publishers.

Between lower prices for indie and non-Big 5 publishers and Kindle Unlimited, I am reading a lot more than if I bought only Big 5 e-books priced under their modified agency pricing model.