Sentences with phrase «major agency publishers»

Representatives from Amazon's US and UK Kindle teams held meetings with three major agency publishers and a group of prominent agents last week in a...

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In both situations, Apple had convinced major book publishers to go with an «agency model,» which would let them set their own prices on ebooks (as in raise prices on ebooks).

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The most recent attempt started in 2010 when five major U.S. publishers — MacMillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Penguin — entered into a so - called agency pricing model with Apple, then allegedly used the Apple deal as leverage to force other retailers into adopting the same pricing model.

Donald Maass is the head of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, selling more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas.

Blue Heron Literary is a boutique agency based out of Seattle that places fiction and nonfiction with major and independent publishers throughout the U.S. and around the world.

While Weinstein doesn't see corporate publishing going away, ever, he does think the business is at «an enormous transition point» and that the outsourcing major publishers have been doing for years — forcing agents to do more editing, going with outside PR, telling authors they need to take hold of their own marketing — will mean that more agencies, and others, will jump into the publishing fray.

During the interview, Lakshmi also talks about how he worked with former literary agent Mark Malatesta to improve his manuscript and pitch materials, resulting in literary agency representation with his first choice literary agent, who then got offers from three major publishers: Penguin, Harper Collins, and Random House.

Housed within this deceptive geography are major record companies, music publishers, talent managers, booking agencies, entertainment lawyers, recording studios, trade organizations and kindred enterprises.»

Now with agency pricing back, a new book ranges from $ 9 to $ 12 to $ 18 from a major publisher.

Some authors (who've gotten NO positive responses from literary agents and / or hundreds of rejections) have written new Query Letters that Worked... resulting in full manuscript requests, representation offers from top literary agencies, and book deals with major publishers.

If approved, «the lawsuit would represent any purchaser of an e-book published by a major publisher after the adoption of the agency model by that publisher.»

Eve worked as a literary agent at The Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency for five happy years where she developed, edited, and sold a wide variety of books to major publishers.

The term «agency pricing» may not be familiar to those outside the book industry, but it has become a serious issue with the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple and five major book publishers for colluding on prices as a defensive move against Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).

Our agency deals closely with all major and independent publishers.

Industry insiders and general interested parties proclaimed that under the new Agency model being adapted by major publishers in determining global eBook prices, violates anti-trust and anti-competitive laws.

The Agency model is also under fire right now, especially in Europe where the EU is launching a major investigating in Publisher Price Cartels where price fixing is illegal.

Sorry, but for the major publishers — you know, those publishers who are being sued by the Department of Justice for price fixing and for others who have followed in their footsteps and have implemented agency model pricing — they don't want to sell the e-book.

Supporters of the traditional publishing industry argue that the major publishers — despite their massive size and dominant role in the print market — need tools like the agency model in order to protect themselves from Amazon's dominance in the e-book business and have to protect their profit margins so they can smooth the transition from print to electronic publishing.

Bio: A literary agent in New York, Donald Maass's agency sells more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas.

After Amazon acquiesced to the agency model, all of Publisher Defendants» major retailers quickly transitioned to the agency model for e - book sales.

If it is proven that Apple was not at fault in establishing an agency model with the other major publishers, the computer and tablet giant still has the allegations from the EU's commission to contend with when the US is finished.

Almost every single major publisher has disclosed strong single digit loses, primarily due to the agency model driving up the cost of e-books.

Most Kindle Nation Daily readers are aware that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the five original «agency model» publishers charging them with a massive price - fixing conspiracy in violation of federal law.

Should the publishers be forced to abandon the agency model, many in the industry believe it will still be a matter of trying to keep up with the major retailers in the book industry, potentially leading to a loss in revenue.

Once approved, the lawsuit would represent any purchaser of an e-book published by a major publisher after the adoption of the agency model by that publisher.

HarperCollins and Hachette are the first major publishers to absolve the agency pricing model for the UK version of Amazon.

The USA Justice Department was looking into allegations that Apple colluded with major publishers to establish agency pricing.

Major publishers are going to begin dispensing refunds to people who purchased eBooks from Apples iBookstore at agency level prices.

Bottomline: The agency model is for those who want to protect the broken, status quo of the book business who want books to be physical items that are sold for high margins through independently owned bookstores (translation: The American Booksellers Association and the major book publishers).

The DOJ says that Apple and various major publishers colluded on ebook pricing, each agreeing that the publishers would embrace an agency model for ebooks — one where the publishers set the price for the ebooks, with the retailer taking a percentage.

With a majority of the major publishers now going to the agency model, it's logical that the final two, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, won't be far behind, especially since they're a part of Steve's team.

The injunction also prevents Apple from simultaneously negotiating new no - discounting agency deals with the major houses, instead forcing the tech giant to negotiate with each publisher separately, in exclusive windows, staggered six months apart.»

The Agency has negotiated over 150 book, film, and television contracts and has attended many of the major international book trade fairs including Frankfurt, London, and Book Expo conventions in the US and Canada to meet with editors, publishers, and sub-agents on behalf of the Agency's clients.

Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99 ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going...), as much or more as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99 ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.

It assured each Publisher Defendant that it would only move forward if a critical mass of the major publishing houses agreed to its agency terms.

In a letter to users posted on iFlowReader's Website, the developers explain that Apple's policy, combined with the agency model now adopted by most major publishers (which gives sellers a 30 percent share of the proceeds), makes iFlowReader unsustainable.

The end of the love affair between Amazon and the major legacy publishers came with the agency pricing model.

The EC also calls attention to most - favored nation clauses (MFNs) in Apple's Agency agreements: «to avoid lower revenues and margins for their ebooks on the iBookstore, the publishers had to pressure other major e-book retailers offering ebooks to their consumers in the EEA to adopt the agency model.&Agency agreements: «to avoid lower revenues and margins for their ebooks on the iBookstore, the publishers had to pressure other major e-book retailers offering ebooks to their consumers in the EEA to adopt the agency model.&agency model.»

One continues to be dominated by major publishers, and increasingly uses agency pricing as a strategy to support print book sales.

What appears to be happening, writes Shatzkin, is that higher Agency pricing by publishers may be placing the majors» ebooks right out of the market for many potential buyers.

It's because of a thing called «agency pricing,» and the U.S. Department of Justice are considering suing Apple and the major book - publishers over colluding to fix prices.

Sorry, but for the major publishers — you know, those publishers who are being sued by the Department of Justice for price fixing and others who have followed in their footsteps and have implemented agency model pricing — they don't want to sell the e-book.

In the previous case of Amazon removing Macmillan's buy buttons, this was in response to Macmillan colluding with Apple and four other major publishers to illegally force the Agency model upon Amazon.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

That model, known as agency pricing, has helped keep big publishers afloat in a time of major transition.

Their book was rejected by every major New York publisher of commercial women's fiction, despite representation by a top NYC literary agency.

For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a bopublishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a boPublishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a bopublishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a book.»

Although five of the six major book publishers have converted to an «agency» pricing model, setting their own retail prices, Bertelsmann AG's Random House publishing group and many smaller publishers still employ the traditional wholesale model — meaning Borders could choose to discount some titles aggressively from these publishers in a bid to drive traffic to its website.

One of the major reasons seen for the seismic shift from trad to indie is the return to agency pricing by the Big 5, which has brought sharp rises in ebook prices from the trad publishers.