Sentences with phrase «publisher at deep discounts»

Wholesaler Company, group or individual who purchases high volumes of books from a publisher at deep discounts and sells them to retailers at midlevel discount.

(Before agency pricing, Amazon could sell e-books from Big Six publishers at deep discounts, taking losses at a rate that Barnes & Noble could never afford to match.

Not exact matches

A standard deep discount clause looks something like this: «On copies of the Work sold by the Publisher at a discount of greater than 55 % from the publisher's retail price through channels outside of ordinary retail trade channels, the author will be paid a royalty of 15 % of the Publisher's net proceedPublisher at a discount of greater than 55 % from the publisher's retail price through channels outside of ordinary retail trade channels, the author will be paid a royalty of 15 % of the Publisher's net proceedpublisher's retail price through channels outside of ordinary retail trade channels, the author will be paid a royalty of 15 % of the Publisher's net proceedPublisher's net proceeds.»

So - called «deep discount» clauses let publishers offer titles to booksellers and wholesalers at big markdowns.

It seems fair that when a publisher sells a book at a deep discount, the author's take might be reduced proportionally.

When a publisher offers direct special sales at deep below - cost discount, it damages the publisher's historic partnership with local booksellers.

This creates a situation where it's actually more profitable for the publisher to sell books at the deep discount than just above it, since the reduction in the author's royalty more than offsets the amount of the reduction in the selling price.

A further point others have pointed out is that while book publishers have to sell remainders at deep discounts, the price of an e-book doesn't go down with age, as there is no need to get an e-book out of inventory.

My backlist titles are also at deep discount, but as I said, I would expect that as publishers are dumping backlist inventory.

According to my royalty statements, 80 - 90 % of the books I'm selling through my traditional publishers are at deep discount.

In the past, several publishers I worked with told me that they were selling books to WalMart at deep discount.

For all other royalty statements and months, take any month that shows deep discounting at least half as much as the largest and add a number between.5 and 1.0 to that publisher cell, based on its ratio to the largest number.

* Let's assume, for the moment, that commercial publishers suddenly change their contracting patterns to be simultaneously fairer to the authors and more flexible in their own pricing by redefining «deep discount» to mean «sold at a price less than 200 % of the actual per - copy production cost established by printer invoice.»

I can speak to actual incidents at more than one media - conglomerate publisher — confidentiality requirements keep me from specifying — and some (not all, and quite probably not «routine») Amazon sales are being treated as «deep discount» in royalty accounting.

Of course, remaindering means that the books will be sold — at a deep discount that probably will only cover printing costs at pennies on the dollar — so the publisher is getting paid — albeit at a loss — but the writer is not.

While it's not clear how many publishers have received similar demands, Amy Rhodes, a partner at New York trade - publishing consultancy Market Partners International, said, «We have to assume they're looking for deeper discounts from everybody.»

As a wholesaler, they can do deep price discounts on print books because they buy them from the publisher at a very low price.

Amazon's deep discounts came at their own expense, so major publishers were getting 100 % of what consumers spent on their books.

While offering a broad selection of Steam titles at discounted prices, IndieGala is an official partner of several renowned publishers such as Bandai Namco, Deep Silver, Nordic Games, and Paradox.

A typical art publisher needs to buy at a deep discount so they can sell the art wholesale to a retailer (i.e., a gallery owner).