Sentences with phrase «over ebook pricing when»

The deal is similar to one struck between Amazon and Simon & Schuster two weeks ago, which gave the publisher significant control over ebook pricing when it comes into effect in January 2015.

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At the peak of the nastiness over the summer, when Amazon was slowing shipments of some Hachette books and removing presale buttons on others, and after Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert eviscerated the retail giant in a popular segment on his show, Amazon made the very rare move of going public with what it wanted from Hachette — namely, $ 9.99 pricing on most ebooks.

So when the calendar rolled over to February 1st, I reset the price on the Faerie Blood ebook to $ 4.99 on the various places where it's sold.

Many publishers colluded with Apple when it launched iBooks to create a uniform ebook pricing structure to disrupt Amazon's complete dominance over the industry.

On the Monday after the weekend when Amazon and Macmillan faced off in a dramatic battle over eBook pricing, I turned to James McQuivey, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, for his perspective on who won, what the stakes are, and what might lie ahead.

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When the world's largest publishers struck ebook distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies.

When I asked for his reaction to the Department of Justice's anti-trust lawsuit against Apple and the Publisher Defendants over eBook pricing, he eschewed gloating and stuck to the company line: «We think it's great for customers for retailers to be able to compete and set prices for consumers and try to find a way to build a great business and a great consumer offering.»

But when publishers price their ebooks over ten dollars it creates a lot of frustration for me.

Publishers are right when they say there's a role for them in an ebook world... Although authors will continue to self - publish, the debate that matters in the future is what the basket of services will be that authors require and what will be the right price for them... good covers, changing covers, dynamic pricing, constantly improved metadata, monitoring to catch glitch take - downs, as well as developmental editing, line - editing, copy - editing, and proofreading... The lines are drawn for that discussion and the opinions are really all over the lot.

Furthermore, when you look at the pricing models that trade ebooks have engendered in the market, you see that publishers have allowed pricing to be controlled by forces that are looking to control over an emerging market rather than those who need to fund the content creation.

The dispute over the price of ebooks flared up in May, when Amazon removed the pre-order button for some Hachette titles, including JK Rowling's latest detective novel.

When your friends are handing over their hard - earned cash for an eBook from the big name stores (and moaning about the outrageous price for a book you can't even hold in your hands), you'll have instant access to more books than you could possibly read in a lifetime... and they won't cost you a single cent.

The cat in question here is [company] Amazon [/ company], which controlled over 90 percent of the ebook market in early 2010 when Apple and the publishers introduced «agency pricing,» which lets publishers set an ebook's retail price and pay the publisher a commission.

And prices are heading lower the Book Industry Study Group confirmed when it noted that over the last four years the average price of ebooks has slid from $ 10 to $ 6.