Sentences with phrase «middlemen at»

Publishers are the middlemen at the bazaar (retailers), whether they are individuals or corporations.

Retail giants eliminate middlemen at every possible step, and small businesses have the opportunity to do the same.

Yesterday the middleman at the heart of the leak, former SAS officer John Wick, gave his first interview on his role in conveying MPs» expenses receipts to the Daily Telegraph, telling the paper he had acted to expose the «rotten core» of the parliamentary system adding: «Parliament will be a better place, society will be a better place.»

You don't pay a middleman at inflated prices for what you can set up for yourself as an author / publisher.

How will authors explain this to their readers as all this social media brings us maybe TOO close to our readers and they don't see the middleman at all?

A suite of digital banking applications and, basically, it is «Just you, the blockchain and your Swiss Bank In Your Pocket» — no middleman at all.

Not exact matches

The main feature of the movement, as described in the story, is an attempt to eliminate or at least minimize the role of middlemen by reconnecting producers and consumers.

You and your team need to get into the data marketplace before your business gets priced out of the game by middlemen happy to resell data at a premium, and before you get shut out of the market by faster and deeper - pocketed competitors.

These digital assets pose an interesting possibility insofar as they provide increased transparency and remove the middleman, and as a result, at...

Assuming you used a discount brokerage house like Charles Schwab and paid about $ 9 per trade, you'd be looking at a $ 63 fee right off the bat, and no costs thereafter as you collected your big oil dividends without any interference from a third - party middleman.

The middleman role is often vulnerable, but long customer relationships (sometimes going back more than 25 years) and the huge list of manufacturers involved (numbered in the hundreds) hints at the intractability of King's Flair's position.

We at Oakmark are confident in the advantages of active management, and believe that if you are a middleman who can be replicated by a computer algorithm, in asset management or elsewhere, you're in trouble.

TechCrunch understands many others deals have been closed at different rates but other middlemen are sliding in to profit, too.

Consumers would also know their purchase was directly supporting the content creators they enjoy and effectively cut out the publishing middlemen eating up the content producer's profits.Though blockchain technology may, at times, sound a bit hard to conceptualize, digital media distribution really shouldn't be rocket science.

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Most small - scale family farmers live in remote locations and lack access to credit, so they are vulnerable to middlemen who offer cash for their coffee at a fraction of its value.

Down at the bottom, I saw fans and athletes commune without middlemen, in a space that they defined themselves.

The 36 - year - old Orthodox Jewish lawyer, who formerly practiced corporate law at Rosenman & Colin, considers himself politically moderate and, in the context of the committee, very much a middleman between conflicting interests.

«The risk of losing funds stored at exchanges is real but uncertain,» write Moore and Christin in «Beware the Middleman: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin - Exchange Risk,» which was invited for presentation at the 17th International Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference held in Okinawa, Japan, April 1 - 5.

Often lured by middlemen (or drugged, beaten, and otherwise coerced), donors end up with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and a scar at the waist that has become an emblem of exploitation and human indignity.

Again, they are the middleman between the dad jeans fit and the skinny style — looser around the leg but still shaped around the thigh and tapered at the bottoms.

Four Athletics uses crowdfunding so they only make what is wanted, which eliminates waste, cuts out the middleman, and delivers a premium quality product at a fraction of the retail price.

A mobile affiliate network is a mobile platform that serves as a middleman solution between mobile advertisers, such as mobile app owners or any businesses that sell a product or service via mobile web, and affiliates (or «publishers») that are engaged at performance - based advertising for the former.

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

He is so good at the job that he is promoted: now he is assigned to meet with General Noriega in Panama serving as courier, but on the way the Medellín Cartel in Colombia offers him a job with more money than he could have imagined, flying drugs from Colombia to various drops, making deliveries by dumping huge bags of cocaine to middlemen along the way.

Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers section of the union voted at their annual conference today to back proposals for an NEU - run third - party platform that would link supply teachers with schools directly, cutting out expensive middlemen.

At issue is dealer reserve, the practice of dealers adding to the interest rate of a loan as compensation for acting as middlemen between car buyers and lenders.

Since the bookstores expect to buy books at a 40 % discount, the middleman has to buy books at an even greater discount, so that it can pass along a 40 % discount to bookstores and still make money.

When a customer orders a paperback book at an online retailer, the P.O.D. company prints a single copy and ships it directly to the customer, eliminating the middleman and the need to carry inventory.

The idea of a middleman compressing and simplifying websites before they're sent to a mobile device isn't new, but Amazon's approach seems much more advanced, with all the sub-systems of the browser available on both sides, and work being split «dynamically» between the device and the cloud based on the URL at hand.

Publishers are playing literary agents at their own game, seeking out new talent for themselves and cutting out the industry's powerful middlemen.

On the other hand, when audience members request books directly from the author at live events, you bypass the middlemen and retain more income.

That's why you can often get better quality freelance help at the same price by not using a middleman service, but by hiring someone directly.

As a self - publisher, you keep all those profits — so that same $ 10 book, once you've paid off the middlemen who sell to the bookstores and libraries, will generate at least $ 3 to $ 4.50, or even more for books sold back of the room at talks or directly over your website.

Comprised of a series of essays and interviews by indie authors, booksellers and publishers, readers will get a look at the many aspects of the indie community, where publishing professionals of all types come together with the simple goal of creating something unique; something that speaks directly to the reader, no middleman necessary.

So I gather that the existing (but being disintermediated) middlemen (traditional publishers), plan to start their own e-book at least store.

A brick - and - mortar bookstore owner at Pennsylvania State University estimated that he would sell fewer books since students do not need middleman to access their learning materials.

Basically both companies are becoming a monopoly middleman (or at least owning a very very large % age of the market).

Even at the reduced price, Dark Horse probably makes more money on digital than print comics, because it is selling direct to customers and eliminating all the middlemen.

-- I don't care whether Amazon sets a price ceiling that some authors may not like, other then in general I like the idea of things being cheaper and middlemen getting squeezed — I don't care about book publishers at all really

The middleman, furious at this interruption in his export - chain and the potential damage done to his reputation by the rotten shipment, told the farmers he wouldn't buy any more macadamia nuts from them in future.

Eliminate legacy infrastructure — eliminate the legacy middleman — and you can deliver a book at lower cost and higher profit.

Publishers sell books to distributors and bookstores at a discount off the cover price, enabling the final retail outlet and any middlemen to make a profit.

Douglas McCabe at Enders Analysis thinks large publishers will continue to need the middleman, pointing out that readers don't set out to buy HarperCollins or Penguin books, just as they don't watch a film because it is made by Pinewood Studios.

at 70 % cash vs mkt cap — it's a nearly free, barely one puff cigarette since 30 % of the mkt cap (its business) may end up being pretty much worthless because of its industry position (middleman in a commodity business), despite a good rev line.

Essentially, CarsDirect operates as a broker, a middleman who puts you in touch with the dealers that have the car and loan you want at the right price.

Skip the middleman — the municipality — and look at an ETF like FTSE NAREIT Residential Index (FEZ), which tracks the residential, health care, and self - storage REITs on the market.

According to Jonathan Lovvorn, vice president and chief counsel for Animal Protection Litigation at HSUS, many of Petland's puppies come from mills, with the Hunte Corporation acting as a middleman.

Some breeding facilities, for instance, only breed; some facilities breed and broker animals (i.e., they act as the «middleman,» selling to pet stores or buying from auctions); and some companies don't breed at all and only deal or broker the sale.

I'm betting that at some point in the semi-distant future we just cut out the middleman of peripherals, and just beam the game directly to the human brain.