Sentences with phrase «prices for e-books»

One of the key factors in that case will likely be whether consumers have been harmed by this model — for example, whether they are paying higher prices for e-books as a result, a topic that my PaidContent colleague Laura Owen and I debated recently.

At the heart of the flurry of lawsuits is a challenge to «agency pricing,» the e-book pricing model under which book publishers set their own prices for e-books, paying the e-tailer («agent») a commission.

«Apple and the five publishers negotiated to switch to a so - called agency model, which would allow the publishers to set their own prices for e-books in exchange for giving Apple a 30 % sales commission.

We have lots of different prices for e-books and e-book prices for bestsellers drop over time.

Briefly, the government's position is this: In early 2010, Apple colluded with the publishers to set prices for all e-books sold through iTunes for the iPad, which was still in development.

Prices for e-books climbed slightly, but were still significantly less than print books.

Amazon has pushed for lower retail prices for e-books, to which Hachette objects.

Amazon is known for having the largest selection and lowest prices for e-books, but B&N is probably a close second.

And, if I can't, if this isn't an e-book sale, but just a strictly - controlled rental that will expire in a few years, then forget $ 9.99 — people aren't going to be willing to pay anywhere near print book prices for e-books, nor should they, if they'll just have to keep re-buying them every few years.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Apple and five major U.S. publishers in April 2012, accusing them of conspiring to fix prices for e-books.

First of all, Amazon and Hatchett are in the process of renegotiating their contract AFTER Hatchett and others were found to have colluded to fix prices for e-books.

Under those deals the publishers will be able to set prices for their e-books, with Apple receiving a 30 - percent commission.

Gary is exasperated with the recent news that the French Senate voted unanimously for a proposition law to fix prices for e-books.

The complaint claims that the five publishing houses forced Amazon to abandon its discount pricing and adhere to a new agency model, in which publishers set prices and extinguishedcompetition so that retailers such as Amazon could no longer offer lower prices for e-books.

When Amazon relented, prices for e-books went up across the board.

So Apple agreed to let the publishers set the prices for their e-books.

When the major book publishing firms signed an agreement with Apple (s aapl) that allowed them to control the prices for their e-books — unlike the deal they had with Amazon (s amzn), which gave the online retailer the right to cut prices if it wanted to — they probably thought they had won a major battle.

Under previous agreements between major publishers and retailers that began in 2010, publishers set prices for e-books.

First, the electronic retailer tried to force the publishers to accept lower prices for their e-books, and retaliated against the ones who refused by yanking their books from its virtual shelves.

As such, the publishers, not the retailers, set prices for e-books.

And each Publisher Defendant recognized that, even if it succeeded in raising retail prices for its e-books, if its competitor publishers» e-books remained at the lower, competitive level, it would lose sales to other Publisher Defendants.

The Publisher Defendants feared that lower retail prices for e-books might lead eventually to lower wholesale prices for e-books, lower prices for print books, or other consequences the publishers hoped to avoid.

The publishers feared that lower retail prices for e-books might lead eventually to lower wholesale prices for e-books, lower prices for print books, or other consequences the publishers hoped to avoid, the DOJ said.

The Big 5 wanted to be able to set their own prices for e-books.

They aren't paying the high prices for e-books from the Big 5 and its ilk, instead turning to indie authors.

One of the key factors in that case will likely be whether consumers have been harmed by this model — for example, whether they are paying higher prices for e-books as a result, a topic that my PaidContent colleague Laura Owen and I debated recently.

In other words, they didn't have the infrastructure for it, they didn't spend the money necessary to develop it and, let's not forget, they colluded with publishers to fix the prices for e-books in an attempt to harm Amazon.

Penguin reached an agreement with the European Union «to settle its antitrust investigation over agency pricing, in order to «clear the decks» ahead of the company's proposed merger with Random House,» the Bookseller reported, noting that under the deal, Penguin «would not «restrict, limit or impede» e-book retailers» discounts or their ability to «set, alter or reduce retail prices for e-books» for two years.»

The new multi-year agreement, announced in a joint statement by the two companies, will give HBG responsibility for setting consumer prices for its e-books but provide the publisher with «specific financial incentives» to keep that price low.

Amazon shocked the publishing world late last week by removing direct access to the Kindle editions as well as printed books from Macmillan, one of the country's six largest publishers, which had said it planned to begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books.

Because they are charging inordinately high prices for their e-books, and doing so solely to drive consumers to traditional books because they control those distribution channels.

Under the agency pricing deal, publishers were allowed to set their own prices for e-books and Apple took a cut from all sales through the iBooks store for iOS devices.

The reported deal, which goes into effect early next year, will allow Hachette to set prices for its e-books.

Prior to 2009, many publishers set a wholesale price for e-books at a 20 % discount from the equivalent physical book, at which point Amazon's $ 9.99 price point roughly matched the wholesale price of many of its e-books.

In late 2014, Amazon and the publishing house Hachette settled a months - long dispute over who should set the price for e-books.

The maturity of their business was immediately apparent from the detailed information available to authors, including a per - genre subscriber count and price for e-book promotions.

There is another, ever more important, factor to consider when setting the price for my e-books.

In its 2012 suit against Apple, the U.S. Department of Justice maintained that, by striking a coordinated deal to establish agency pricing for e-books, the publishers and Apple exhibited anticompetitive conduct by conspiring to fix prices.

Libraries are fine with paying a higher price for e-books than consumers, she added.

When Amazon first set the price for e-books at $ 9.99, it did so unilaterally and didn't inform publishers in advance of its live - streamed announcement.

«Apple decided to offer the Publisher Defendants the opportunity to move from a wholesale model — where a publisher receives its designated wholesale price for each e-book and the retailer sets the retail price — to an agency model, where a publisher sets the retail price and the retailer sells the e-book as its agent.»

The New York Times then broke the story that Amazon and MacMillian were arguing over Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing for e-books.

If Amazon had started with $ 2.99 readers would consider that a cheap price for an e-book.

When the Kindle was first released on November 19, 2007, it retailed for $ 399 and Amazon was setting the price for e-book versions of its best sellers at $ 9.99.

Offsetting the higher price for e-books, the price of e-readers has dropped substantially and you can now buy a Kindle for $ 79.99 if you don't mind advertising.

I'm not just talking price here, even though the majority of people don't want to pay the same price for an e-book that they do for a hard cover and most of them don't even want to pay the price of a paperback for an e-book.

Apple's deal with publishers, as you may know, lets the publishers set the price for e-books (with a lowest - price guarantee) in Apple's iBooks store with Apple getting a 30 % cut on sales.

Once publishers adopt reasonable pricing for e-books and drop the DRM security, which I think they will be forced to do by market and legal pressures in the not - too - distant future, I suspect the sheer convenience of e-books will drive the sales of e-books up, consequently forcing sales of hard copies down.

What is interesting is that he doesn't buy into the argument put forth by so many that the initial $ 9.99 price for e-books on the best sellers list was meant to harm the publishers.

The Publisher Defendants also worried that if $ 9.99 solidified as the consumers» expected retail price for e-books, Amazon and other retailers would demand that publishers lower their wholesale prices, further compressing publisher profit margins.