Sentences with phrase «old agency pricing model»

Not exact matches

Apple and Penguin continue to fight it out in court, but most other publishers ended up disbanding the old agency model and now allow online retailers to establish their own prices.

When switching to the agency model, publishers almost universally raised prices on e-books across the board: Amazon had sold new releases at $ 9.99 (often taking a loss, paying publishers about $ 13 for e-books with a $ 26 «list price»), and backlist (older) titles around $ 6.39.

If you want to understand the agency pricing model and its effects on e-book prices, take a look at these older posts.

But with respect to the agency discount, Amazon demands that all non-Big-Six trade publishers sell it their ebook and physical book wares under the old trade discount model, which requires only that Amazon buy inventory at roughly 50 % off the publisher's suggested list price (the discounts vary by publisher and can run as high as 55 %) and is silent on pricing — allowing Amazon to discount as steeply as it wishes to win over customers.