Sentences with phrase «on agency model»

He also said that even though the company is looking at the online distribution channel, it will always remain focused on agency model as it feels that agents do a better job with their personalised touch.

What Harlequin didn't mention in their press release is that as a Publisher, they are currently not on the agency model with their digital distributors — Apple iBookstore being the one exception.

By Erin L. Cox In this week's issue of The New Yorker, Media Reporter Ken Auletta reports on the digital publishing questions, such as publisher and bookseller opinions on the agency model, windowing, branding to readers instead of bookstores, whether Apple will be a better partner to publishers than Amazon, and featuring some of the usual suspects in digital publishing...

I'm not going to comment on the Agency model which has drawn down the current US Department of Justice enquiry into Apple and the big six publishers.

If one publisher insisted on the agency model, selling Stephen King's books for $ 9.99, they would make more money per sale, but lose more over the long run because another publisher would offer their books under the usual terms, letting the retailer set the price.

Not all publishers are on the agency model (5 of the «Big 6» are, but Random House and smaller publishers are not).

Unfortunately Tor's parent company Macmillan hasn't settled the DoJ lawsuit so is keeping things on the Agency model for now.

It's a fallacy to blame high ebook prices on the agency model.

We don't think the LaLa - land location is any accident, so we're expecting that the event will include some real Hollywood star power, perhaps in support of original video content that might be free to Amazon Prime customers for viewing on the Kindle Fire and other devices — say, an original docudrama series based loosely on the agency model pricing conspiracy, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, and John Lithgow?

Amazon.com and Macmillan had their very public negotiations over e-book pricing (which saw Amazon suspend sales of Macmillan titles for a time), and Hachette also announced that they, like Macmillan, would base pricing of e-books on an agency model.

There are some errors here, such as an odd comment about ebooks having no marginal costs, and a mistake in describing bookshops as working on the agency model, but this is still some pretty interesting work.

But we're facing regulatory intervention on the agency model in the US — and possibly the EU.

Not exact matches

First, most real estate operations consist of independent agents trying to run their own business or operate on behalf of a larger agency on a franchise model.

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).

Fitzgerald's business model is primarily designed to circumvent Environmental Protection Agency regulations on diesel emissions.

So my wife, Linda, and I decided to model our actions on the wisdom of the French proverb and turn ownership of the agency over to the employees rather than sell it.

The analysis assumed each car drove 15,000 miles — roughly the national average — at a rate of 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per 100 miles, based on the median mileage rate for Tesla Model 3 and Model S vehicles, according to figures reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The product testing agency on Thursday gave the new, high - performance P85D version of the automaker's Model S a rating of 100 — a perfect score — calling it «the best - performing car that Consumer Reports has ever tested.»

An agency has for each girl an account, and if they need to have the girl come from Arizona to New York in order to build her portfolio, the agency will front the expenses for her plane ticket, for paying the photographers, for printing the photos, for the physical portfolio itself, for the comp cards that need to be developed, for the retouching, for new clothes to go on castings with, for a model apartment for her to stay in.»

A content marketing consultancy, much like Honigman Media (shameless plug), focuses solely on content marketing and another area or two, offering specific expertise to apply to your company's workflow, as opposed to the agency model that often provides services in many different areas to be your one - stop shop for marketing.

He said that if he had to rely on the European Space Agency's limited, difficult - to - access data for his work checking climate model predictions against reality, he'd be «more or less blind» — particularly in the vast, uninhabited stretches of the globe like the Pacific, which are vital for understanding the world climate.

The proliferation of data and advances in economic modelling and computing power prompted some economists to wonder if they really needed to wait on statistics agencies to calculate headline figures such as GDP and employment.

For Tzell, that's been based largely on expanding its independent agent model into a form of consolidation that's really a partnership with other travel agencies, allowing it to leverage their volume without actually buying the partner's assets.

Indeed, modernity is very much their friend in this respect because it encourages them to think rationally, to plan ahead, to study, to engage in gainful employment, to strategize politically, and to model their own organizations on the businesses or government agencies in which they work.

Chapter three sets forth Polkinghorne's trademark proposal that God's action in the world be modeled on the concept of human and divine agency through «holistic causal principles of a pattern - forming kind,» summarized in the term «active information.»

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

While he called on his dentist, the car was hastily swapped at the rental agency for a 100 - mph model, deemed more worthy of the chauffeur.

We participated in the steering group of the Family Rights Group Fathers Matter 2 project — which aimed to gather evidence on how social care agencies engage with dads, and develop models of good practice (for more details click here).

This model relieves agencies of trying to raise funds and secure diapers on their own, letting them focus on their mission of direct service to families.

Representatives from social service agencies in Chicago Lawn, Logan Square and Woodlawn will travel to New York City in the coming weeks to attend a multi-day conference and a «practitioner's institute» for organizations that are interested in launching Promise Neighborhoods, an initiative of the Obama Administration modeled on the Children's Zone.

Reporting for the Excelsior Jobs Program is a good model to follow because it includes most of the metrics necessary to have a complete picture of recipients» commitments, actual performance, and incentives issued.3 Another good example is the downloadable data on Industrial Development Agency (IDA) projects provided on the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) website, although quality metrics should include annual numbers, and not just totals.4 See Appendix A for a recommended list of metrics.

A spokesman for the governor's Empire State Development agency said the changes were made based on feedback from businesses, and the administration is still «firmly committed to the model.»

Union officials and CSEA members who work in the state's youth detention facilities had been working with the agency to move from a correction model to a so - called «sanctuary model» which centers on reducing or eliminating restraints and creating a more therapeutic environment focused on staff building relationships with residents.

The USICH offers guidance and helps to break down bureaucratic barriers among different government agencies, which has served as a model for the statewide Interagency Council on Homelessness.

«It is a model because of its combination of foundational education and hands - on skills that will allow them to be effective on day one in solving real - world problems,» says Richard «Dickie» George, technical director of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) Information Assurance Directorate.

In this model, workers are formally employed by a staffing agency, a company that specializes in hiring workers and placing them on assignments at client companies.

The report, which drew heavily on two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshops held in 1995, also recommends more research on such topics as DNA biomarkers that can gauge an organism's exposure to endocrine disruptors; models for predicting how endocrine disruptors are metabolized; mechanisms of how endocrine disruptors act at a cellular level; and the effects of mixtures.

Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

Moreover, some say that the agency — modeled on long - established outfits like the U.S. National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation — introduces a type of personal competition that simply isn't right for France.

The report recommends an organization modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency within the Department of Defense.

As part of a project spearheaded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Griffith and her colleagues decided to pursue a technology that they call a «physiome on a chip,» which they believe could offer a way to model potential drug effects more accurately and rapidly.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the integration of 10 individual organs - on - a-chip to create a miniature model of the human body.

Eventually, HBP wants to evolve into an international organization, Gillet says, modeled on CERN, the European Space Agency, or the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

To conduct their analysis, IU scientists gathered statistics on 400 fashion models from the Fashion Model Directory, a major database of professional female fashion models, tracking hair and eye color; height; hip, waist, dress and shoes size; modeling agency; and runways walked.

Committee chair Jean - Claude Lehmann, a physicist and former president of France's Academy of Engineering, accused the agency of «hegemony» in trying to impose their economic models on industry.

At 8.05 a.m. local time, the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics in Jakarta issued a bulletin about a hypothetical tsunami — modelled on the one that hit Sumatra on Boxing Day 2004 and claimed more than 200,000 lives — to national focal points around the Indian Ocean.

Seismologist Mark Petersen, who leads the USGS project mapping seismic risk in the United States, says that the agency is now updating its models of major faults in the Western United States based on the events in Japan.

The pace at which FEMA's modeling capacity grows will depend on the resources available, access to appropriate expertise, and the support of agency leadership, the report says.

The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.