Sentences with phrase «inflated ebook prices»

The result of all this has been artificially inflated eBook prices meant to turn customers away from things like the Kindle.

Retailers would be duly put in their place and the paper oligopoly would be protected by inflated ebook prices across the board.

It might indeed be a good thing... if it leads to a loss of sales, due to inflated ebook prices.

Howey and Data Guy contend — and they'll get no argument here — that major publishers are inflating ebook prices, and then announcing that ebooks aren't selling as well as they were.

Apple has vehemently denied conspiring with publishing industry heavyweights to artificially inflate ebook pricing, countering Department of Justice claims that Steve Jobs attempted price fixing with the argument that Apple and the rights holders were in fact strongly opposed throughout negotiations.

Not exact matches

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.

When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the price of ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]

But all this is assuming (A) ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for ebooks, or any content, in five years.

The top end of the range prevents authors and publishers from listing their ebooks at overly inflated prices, since Amazon wants to make sure there is enough content available for its millions of Kindle fans, all at an enticing price point.

This ill - fated connection results in the inflated pricing of ebooks attributed to the expense of first producing the pbook by mainstream publishers.

Not only did it possibly result in sanctions from anti-trust violations, but it kept the ebook prices overly inflated to the end that reading consumers opted for print editions that had similar price points but that carried with them enormous printing and shipping costs meaning a smaller profit for the publisher.

There I read reviews, compare the wonderfully low price of ebook (or not if it is inflated by trad pub).

It IS the publisher's fault / responsibility ultimately because they want these inflated prices (which don't translate into additional royalties for authors) on a product that has SHITTY FORMATTING (and I now know for sure that it does NOT take a rocket scientist to format and ebook well).

Inflating the price and limiting the availability of ebooks to libraries could further hurt established authors; times are tough, the economy sucks and people just aren't as willing to pay $ 10 - $ 15 (or more) for a new release of a ebook whether they can get them alternatively at the library or not.

How considerate of you to artificially inflate the prices of ebooks to make paper books seem a better proposition.

Rethinking eBook DRM could help with some of these problems, but in the meantime, these limitations are why I feel like I'm being gouged when a retailer inflates the price of an eBook.

I feel like the ebook pricing, especially in Canada, are over inflated.

Given the number of hoops I had to jump through in order to get a free copy of Windows 8 for Dummies, and the massively inflated prices I saw listed on books ($ 4 - 5 above list prices for ebooks elsewhere), I would not go anywhere near this device.