Sentences with phrase «predatory pricing from»

It forces retailers to compete on customer experience (quality of discovery and matching tools, community, purchase experience, library features) rather than price (predatory pricing from deep - pocketed competitors is the strategy to win here, at the expense of all other retailers and potential startup competitors.

The reason why these companies went out of business is because of predatory pricing from the major publishers.

Not exact matches

In 1914 Congress enacted the Clayton Act55 to strengthen the Sherman Act and included a provision to curb price discrimination and predatory pricing.56 The House Report stated that section 2 of the Clayton Act was expressly designed to prohibit large corporations from slashing prices below the cost of production «with the intent to destroy and make unprofitable the business of their competitors» and with the aim of «acquiring a monopoly in the particular locality or section in which the discriminating price is made.»

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

Some of the transcripts are now available from the Senate's inquiry into the «impacts of supermarket price decisions on the dairy industry» (naturally Frank Zumbo used the opportunity to once again rave about the Birdsville amendment on predatory pricing - he doesn't fail to mention he drafted it, amongst other things (such as a purported need for price discrimination laws and proposing an office of the Australian small business and farming commissioner)-RRB-.

The Blunt Review noted that the majority of small businesses regarded section 49 as having been of no real assistance to them, noting that those seeking relief from price discrimination were generally seeking relief from predatory pricing by powerful firms.

Torres, also endorsed by StreetsPAC, is well versed in a broad range of progressive issues — from participatory budgeting to the battle against «predatory equity» and derelict landlords to sustainability, a key policy concern of his that encompasses issues including the health impacts of truck exhaust pollution, the need for congestion pricing to reduce traffic, the availability of nutritious fresh food, and the maintenance of affordable and livable housing.

If Amazon could compel publishers to fall in line with its predatory pricing of e-books, it could eliminate a thinly capitalized but potent (because of its physical, brick - and - mortar presence) competitor from the e-book market.

From Wikipedia: «Predatory pricing (also undercutting) is a pricing strategy where a product or service is set at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors.»

In the Special Events hall of today's IDPF Digital Book event, a last minute guest speaker, Paul Aiken from the Author's Guild, gave a ten - minute one - sided explanation of the DoJ investigation against Apple and five publishers but he somehow managed to insert the phrase, «Amazon's predatory pricing model,» three times, despite the fact that Amazon is not named in the investigation or lawsuits.

Long - term, we need laws that protect authors from Amazon's predatory royalty pricing.

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

What's more, conveyancing was ripped away from the bar by temporary predatory pricing and now the poor Americans have very high - cost conveyancing coupled with very poor service - an example of ABS in action.