Amazon seems very focused on a few elements when it comes to books and content — creating new content sources that it owns,
maintaining control over pricing, creating exclusive agreements.
* We balanced the profit to be gained by
maintaining control over pricing on low - margin Kindle books against the profit lost by pulling high - margin print books and decided not to do this
Facebook says many of their partner publishers identified subscriptions as a top priority, and especially requested the ability to
maintain control over pricing, offers, and all the revenue generated from each subscription.
Not exact matches
In place of accurate emissions data, Hsu said that China has more
control over businesses than democratic governments do, so it can more easily bring them in line and
maintain environmental integrity if, for example, allowances are too plentiful and their
price crashes, as happened in the E.U.'s system.
There's no question that when Apple appeared on the market, book publishers were desperately trying to
maintain some kind of
pricing control over the new field of e-books, because they were afraid that this new digital format would mean permanently lower
prices.
Fearing that e-book sales would cut into their print sales (and that everyone would opt to buy cheap e-books
over more expensive hardcovers), publishers sought a way to sell release new titles as hardcovers and e-books simultaneously, while still
maintaining some
control on
pricing.
For Hachette, it's about
maintaining pricing control over their product lines.
Artists always
maintain 100 % ownership of their artwork, can name their own
prices, and have total creative
control over the products their work goes on.
In place of accurate emissions data, Hsu said that China has more
control over businesses than democratic governments do, so it can more easily bring them in line and
maintain environmental integrity if, for example, allowances are too plentiful and their
price crashes, as happened in the E.U.'s system.