Not exact matches
World food
prices posted their biggest monthly rise for four years in June, buoyed by a surge in sugar and increases for most other edible commodities, the United Nations food
agency said on Thursday.
A personal man
posts his personal ads at a no
price local women free connection
agency at OnlinexDate to find his affiliate.
I remember the other day someone
posted in another BBW topic about how in Canada there's a demand for attractive black women among exclusive high
priced dating
agencies.
I've
posted about this in the past, but as a brief refresher, what
agency pricing means is that publishers get to set the
prices for their ebooks.
And although Fictionwise lost a LOT of its inventory once the
agency pricing model took effect (more on this in a later
post), they still sell a lot of titles from smaller publishers, which will also be in various DRM - free formats.
But, especially since the
agency pricing debacle, I've found less and less to like in his
posts.
Macmillan returns to
agency pricing on e-books, plans to test subscriptions; Nielsen Children's Book Summit highlights growing market; Cameron
Post wins again with help of Kids» Right to Read Project; Duncan, Ellroy named Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters
The compelling news stories included male pen names, comparisons between print journalism and traditional publishing, author displeasure with Audible, Fantasy - Faction's
post on why you shouldn't self publish, and a massive story on
agency pricing.
Coker included several graphs in his
post that demonstrated a fairly steady
price for ebooks through Smashwords after the switch to the
agency model, indicating that it did not cause the
price increase that critics feared.
Macmillan on a blog
post explained the
agency model as thus; The «retail model» of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to readers at a
price that the retailer determines) to the «
agency model» (publishers set the
price, and retailers take a commission on the sale to readers).
Mark Coker, CEO of ebook distribution site Smashwords, actually spoke out in a recent blog
post in favor of the
agency pricing model.
On Wednesday December 1st in an epic Blog
Post, Smashwords founder Mark Coker outlined his business moving into an
agency model for eBook
pricing.
So the lay of the land has shifted dramatically
post the DOJ bringing the suit against the Big 6 over their
Agency model
pricing.
A useful
post from Jane Litte at Dear Author, Did
agency pricing help publishers and if so will they return to it when the ban is lifted?
With all the buzz about the
agency model, the Justice Department, allegations of collusion, etc., I figure the time is right for a
post about ebook
pricing.
I've seen countless
posts by readers decrying (a) high e-book
prices (the
agency model and $ 14.99 e-books), (b) delayed e-book releases, (c) publishers blocking text - to - speech, (d) annoying DRM attached to e-books (and the incompatibilities that result), and (e) recently, publishers blocking the lending feature (which B&N has had for a while and Amazon just added).
In a
post the other day about bargain
prices for a couple of Elizabeth Peters ebooks in the Kindle Store, I made the point that readers may actually be able to influence publisher
pricing behavior when we jump on bargain
prices like those mentioned in the
post, even while the Kindle bestseller list shows some signs that Kindle owners are accepting
agency - model
pricing:
If you want to understand the
agency pricing model and its effects on e-book
prices, take a look at these older
posts.
Today's Passive Voice blog has an interesting
post about Amazon / Hachette and
agency pricing: http://www.thepassivevoice.com/11/2014/in-amazonhachette-deal-ebook-
agency-
pricing-is-a-winner/ It poses an interesting framework for considering Ellora's Cave.
In your
post last week about Google pulling the rug out from under independent booksellers, you blamed Google for not investing enough — and that was under the
agency pricing regime.
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The Federal Housing Finance
Agency reported that nationwide home
prices posted their first gain in the first quarter since 2007.
The aforesaid, can only be taken as an «absolute» claim that «mere
postings» achieve the same
price results as Full -
Agency / Service MLS.
Should a REALTOR undertake to suggest that «mere
postings» achieve similar
price results to Full -
Agency / service listings, they should be required to back - it - up or validate their claim with a CMA comprised exclusively of such sales.
Home
prices rebounded astoundingly in 2016,
posting a 6 percent year - over-year gain in the third quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance
Agency (FHFA) House
Price Index.
The Federal Housing Finance
Agency's House
Price Index
posted a smaller - than - expected gain in the month of October.
While single - family home
prices in the Bay Area dropped 2.5 percent from a year earlier, the worst performance among the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, the capital region
posted a 10 percent increase over the same period, according to Federal Housing Finance
Agency data.