Sentences with phrase «lock over the publishers»

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That source also said Facebook has met with several publishers to discuss the proposed subscription service and to understand the publishers» needs, with the company planning to give publishers full control over which articles are locked behind the paywall.

The deal, which was reportedly worth $ 200 million to $ 250 million over seven years, locked out all other third - party publishers from producing baseball titles — including Electronic Arts, maker of the beloved MVP Baseball series that constituted Take - Two's stiffest competition.

Two publishers have pulled texts from consideration rather than lock horns with the state board of education over material that some board members found objectionable.

While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging prices of ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work from new writers at a fraction of the cost.

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

At the time, Apple said that the major publishers were locked in a battle with online retailer Amazon over selling books for too cheap.

The chair of the Society of Authors, Tom Holland, has hit out at publishers» attempt to seize control over electronic rights, calling ebook deals that lock authors in for the duration of copyright «not remotely fair».

No longer content with simply demanding steeper discounts from publishers like Hachette — which is locked in a bitter fight with the e-commerce giant over book prices — Amazon is finally reaching its end goal: the complete dissolution of the traditional book business model through a vertically integrated publishing platform, from writer to Kindle.

Every author, unless locked into a long - term contract with a dead - tree publisher, has the bargaining power to negotiate over pricing.

Once that happens, B&N can get a big advantage over Amazon by dropping DRM, since Amazon will most likely keep DRM regardless of whether or not publishers demand it in order to maintain its Kindle lock - in.

Amazon and publishing giant Hachette have been locked in a six - month dispute over the pricing of e-books that has led Amazon to delay shipment of Hachette authors, refuse pre-orders and institute other tactics aimed at damping the publisher's sales.

For those who are unaware, the retailer and the publisher have been locked in a dispute over contract terms; Amazon wants to remain under the wholesale model in which it gets to determine the price of the ebooks it sells, even if that means taking a loss in order to pass the savings on to the customer, and Hachette wants to go to the briefly - instituted agency model in which the publisher determines the price.

Facebook's partner publishers will have full control over which of their news stories will be locked behind the paywall for Instant Articles.