Sentences with phrase «publishers jacked up the price»

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If Amazon was content with publishers learning the hard way, they would've avoided a PR war last year and let Hachette jack up prices.

Once big corporate publishers got control over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.

Since big publishers won their lawsuit and jacked eBook prices way up, I don't buy big pub books anymore.

Evidence suggests higher prices may not be the best way to make more money in the digital literature market, but publishers may have other reasons for jacking up costs.

Publishers do these price pulses in order to raise the visibility of a book before jacking up the price again.

He writes that he thinks publishers are jacking up their ebook prices:

If you want to watch how book publishers can accelerate their own demise, watch what happens when the giant book publishers exercise their new - found freedom to jack up the price of e-books sold.

So, once again, the publisher / reseller either jacks up the price, or puts complicated conditions in the license.

It seems to me that the strongest reason for publisher's wanting to jack up e-book prices is to preserve retail bookstores.

I suspect that price sensitive customers are taking greater advantage of these services and the Big 5 publishers jack up their ebook prices.

I can't see this as anything but a convenient excuse for publishers to jack up ebook prices, which they've always wanted to do but been prevented by retailers like Amazon, who have the gall to claim they know something about what ebook buyers are willing to pay.

So we should have to let publishers collude to jack up the price of e-books because those are the only terms under which they're willing to stop other anti-consumer practices like windowing?

Apple colluded with the big publishers to jack up ebook pricing and to fix ebook pricing so publishers set prices and no one can offer discounts back when the iPad was first released.

The whole agency pricing and traditional publishers jacking up ebook prices to save their print sales, pisses me off.

Companies can also offer those deals on their websites, but they must offer exactly the same deal through their app (which prevents publishers from jacking up prices to cover the 30 - percent take that Apple removes).