Sentences with phrase «loss leader pricing»

I think BoB is very consumer oriented and I would hate to see a promising young e-tailer close its doors because of aggressive loss leader pricing designed to gain a monopoly on the ebook reading public.

Amazon claims that it can maintain the loss leader pricing indefinitely.

What about the right to price the book at a loss leader price point for a few days?

Not exact matches

Suburban supermarkets practically invented the loss leader as a tactic to bring in more shoppers who would then fill their carts mostly with full priced items.

Prices that appear better than ours fall into two categories: big bundles and temporary loss leaders.

Metal dealers also often employ «loss - leader» strategies on initial purchases to gain new customers, but will adjust prices higher on subsequent purchases or recommend more expensive products like collectibles where the spread is much higher, resulting in greater profit for the dealer.

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The «loss - leader with ugly wholesale transfer pricing» dynamic that exists in the movie theater industry results in some predictable behavior:

These leaders seek to make blacks into the conscience of America, even if the price is the loss of our souls.

Last year the Harper review of competition law recommended getting rid of the «take advantage» test to crack down more effectively on anti-competitive behaviour by big companies such as exclusive deals, loss - leader pricing and cross-subsidisation to stamp out new competitors.

Fresh home brand milk is going to be in the class of products along with things like Coca - Cola and nappies - the products that are regularly used as what I will call «loss leaders»... they are products that are priced very cheaply and that the supermarkets use to entice people into their stores...

«The commitment of troops without an end plan - an extraordinary high proportion of whom come from Wales, costs a high price financially in addition to the obvious costs to families and communities from loss of life or physical or mental injury,» party leader Leanne Wood said.

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He has said he started with this pricing system as a «loss leader» to entice readers into buying his more expensive titles.

And don't talk to me about loss - leaders — if you need to half - price Harry Potter to get customers into your shop, perhaps it's time you took a long hard look at who you are as a bookseller and what you're trying to do.

Another strategy is leave the first book perma99cents to serve as a loss - leader and price Books # 2 - infinity at full price.

First, that a price of $ 9.99 for an ebook on Amazon is without question a «loss leader» or predatory pricing.

More bookstores are going to have to take this approach (or one like it); if they don't Amazon will continue to drive wholesale prices down, shrinking profits to the point that selling books will be nothing more than a loss - leader for them.

So, we shouldn't worry too much about the loss - leader $ 199 price of Kindle Fire.

Based on the publishers» list price, these were loss leaders designed to boost the sales of the company's proprietary reading device, the Kindle, which retails for $ 259.

For right now, I think I've found a good place for it, based on my sales, although I'm thinking about dropping the price of the first book in the series when I release the last — loss - leader marketing.

From the outside, it looks like the pricing was not just a loss leader on the devices, but a way to discourage competition.

I keep my first book in a series priced at 99 cents as a loss leader.

It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale selling model to an agency selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover releases.

Just a note on Option D. From my experience (five book series, first is perma - free), there's no need to price Book # 2 to $.99 as a secondary loss - leader to tempt readers into the series.

«Agency pricing» has been, since its inception, nothing more than a means to control the retail price that Amazon, not Apple, can charge for an ebook — a means to break Amazon's strategy of using ebooks as loss - leaders to sell the Amazon Kindle.

But expect that if e-books come to be treated as main sources of publisher revenue rather than as loss leaders, or as sub-rights-books subsidized by the print versions: Expect e-book prices to rise.

WM had been on a relentless loss - leader price - cutting binge on the theory that bargains brought in customers who stayed and paid full price for more «luxurious» goods.

People who had successfully used the KDP program had noted that it was often helpful in the selling of other works; you will see many authors sell a novel for.99 as a loss leader, while their other works are priced much higher.

Having your first book a lower price, or even free (5 day free limit) through Amazon's KDP creates a «loss leader «product that can benefit your other books.

(Retailers had always had the freedom to discount as they saw fit from the publishers» suggested retail prices in the past, and Amazon had in fact been selling many Kindle titles as loss leaders.)

So, if Amazon wanted to sell my «Writers Gone Wild» (from Penguin) as a «loss leader» price of $ 5.99, they would not be allowed to unless the publisher agreed to lower the price, and that price would be carried by all the other eBook outlets.

Amazon's corporate wealth and power enabled it to take the notion of loss - leaders to a new level under the terms of the wholesale pricing model that had existed in the book trades for decades.

From Amazon's perspective, the price simply gained converts to a new way of reading, sold Kindles, and served the purpose of any loss leader: getting people to the store.

That kind of profit margin loss - leader stance «can be viewed as a major blow to all Android tablet manufacturers who really have no way to compete since the channel mark - up would require [that] companies put their tablets at or below cost to beat the Kindle Fire price — and they still all lack the content that the Amazon storefront has,» according to the report, citing Jeffrey Brown, vice president of business intelligence at TechInsights.

Over the past fiscal year, losses have widened by nearly the same percentage as sales have gone up, with more losses forecast by the company itself as it continues to diversify and, more importantly, tries to corner various markets through acquisitions or loss - leader pricing.

That's great for us in the short term, but in the long term, this loss leader bargain pricing could lead to a «one bookstore that rules us all» sort of thing which isn't good.

I do object to ebook prices being at or substantially above the cost of (non loss leader) paper books, especially when the author take is no better, and often worse.

Readers as loss - leaders in order to sell ebooks at a decent price («decent,» as in retaining publisher and author interest)... I like it!

Digital Reader comes up with an upfront explanation about «loss leaders» and «predatory pricing» to clarify what Amazon is accused to do and there is no necessity to repeat Nate's definition.

It's almost as if Microsoft realized that OEMs were going to struggle to match price when amazon can make the device a loss leader.

Best sellers and some new issues were priced at a fixed $ 9.99 as the same kind of loss leader strategy commonly found at the end of every super market aisle in the country.

Many companies offer loss leaders and will sell you a limited number of gold and silver coins just over spot at a very reasonable price.

Products you would feature can range from new items to loss leaders, special - price - point products and services.

The key to using lower - priced prints as loss leaders successfully is to commit to following up with your new collectors.

«Law Firm Price Wars Break Out as Some Try «Loss Leader» Bids for Work» by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal) >> READ ARTICLE

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