Sentences with phrase «leverage over publishers»

Rather than reducing piracy, it has locked customers in Amazon's walled garden, which in turn increases Amazon's leverage over publishers.

However, in every industry, there are some things that basically are not negotiable, especially if you have little or no leverage over the publisher.

Apple's entry into ebooks thwarted Amazon's leverage over publisher so I don't think we see the end of DRM for a long, long time.

Not exact matches

I know other publishers have been pressured to change their contracts over with a wee bit of industry leverage.

The more people purchase Kindle books through Amazon, the more leverage it will gain over publishers.

The publishers had seen over many years what Amazon did with this kind of additional leverage....

Trade publishers leverage a network of bookstores and review sources they've built up over decades.

Over the last six going on seven years, Smashwords introduced our free ebook printing press, Meatgrinder, which made it possible for any writer anywhere to publish an ebook in minutes; we opened distribution for the first time to major retailers and library partners that were previously inaccessible to self - published authors; we developed sophisticated yet easy - to - use publishing tools that help writers and small indie presses publish with pride and professionalism; we worked to actively educate our authors and publishers how to leverage best practices to publish with greater success; and we've been fierce (but friendly!)

This means the leverage publishers hold over Amazon will diminish each year.

Tencent has become the largest games publisher in China by leveraging its WeChat and QQ services which are now used by over 800 million and 900 million people respectively.