Sentences with phrase «publishers set the price»

This method gives the publisher freedom: publishers set the price for end users.

Apple introduced a new model — called the «agency» model — where the publisher sets the price of the e-book and the retailer sells it for that price, taking a 30 percent fee.

While HarperCollins, like several other publishers before it, has been gunning for an agency pricing model in which the publisher sets the price of its books and basically forbids discounting on the part of the retailer, Amazon has long dug its heels in and refused to budge with the publishers in terms of its demand for a wholesale model.

That statement was that Apple could not engage in book discounting under the agency model for at least two years, and then it could only negotiate terms of the so - called «agency model» (in which the publishers set the prices of their books, not the retailer) with one publisher at a time spread out over a period of six months each.

So what they do is the publisher sets a price, and the agent — Amazon — gets a 30 percent commission.

If publishers set prices and Amazon can't discount, what do you think is going to happen to your sales volume?

Publishers agreed to his «Agency Model» (publishers set the price, Apple gets 30 % of the profits, and publishers can not allow lower prices on a competing service).

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.

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).

This is because ebooks are sold under the agency model where the publisher sets the price and gets 70 % of each sale, and the retailer gets the remaining 30 %.

Apple's agency model let publishers set prices in return for a 30 percent cut to the maker of iPhone and iPad.

With Findaway Voices, authors and publishers set the pricing.

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

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

Normally, the publisher sets the price and Kobo gets 30 % of each book sale.

Just as we've allowed developers to set prices on the App Store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore.»

Under agency pricing publishers set the price for their titles and, guess what, it is the same price everywhere.

Apple's announcement — the product will be available in late March — already seems to be helping the book business: Apple has said it will let publishers set the price of electronic books for the iPad, something Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) has refused to do for Kindle books.

Publishers set the price, and they can sell multiple editions of the same book with different «features»: one might have an audio track or special text - to - speech voices, while another could be plain text.

And now Amazon says they're adding sales tax on any book where the publisher sets the price.

The DOJ says that Apple and various major publishers colluded on ebook pricing, each agreeing that the publishers would embrace an agency model for ebooks — one where the publishers set the price for the ebooks, with the retailer taking a percentage.

With the «agency model,» publishers set the price of their books, paper or ebook.

If that isn't enough, hybrid publishers set the price for the book (often higher than market value) and charge you a premium for the books you purchase.

Agency pricing, in which publishers set prices and booksellers take a fixed commission, promised to make it easier for small booksellers to compete by removing the threat of predatory pricing by retailing behemoths like Amazon.

Under that model, the publisher sets the price and the seller, in this case Apple, gets a fixed percentage.

My thinking on this is that letting publishers set the price is a goo way to steal a march back from Kindle and Amazon.

The publisher sets the price.

The Kindle 2 Review blog has some thoughts on this, basically saying that letting book publishers set prices (as Google seem to be proposing) is a bad call.

Whether it's the publisher setting the prices, or the authors themselves, authors at every level will still get paid.

Under this, publishers set the price at which a book was to be sold, and that was that.

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.

Hagens Berman, a consumer rights class - action law firm, filed the original complaint in U.S. District Court in California in August alleging that Apple, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and MacMillan teamed up to force Amazon to raise its $ 9.99 e-book pricing to a new, and often more expensive, «agency model» where publishers set the price.

She says» And if the publishers set the price too high, it's the authors that lose the most and I hate losing.»

With publishers setting the price for e-books, will the online outlets start discounting print books more, even if — as with Amazon — it is only for a limited time?

* Agency pricing essentially means that the publisher sets the price, and the retailer is not free to discount that price without the publisher's express permission.

There I some $ 149.99 title in the top ten but it's a collectors edition kind of thing 3: a market that is well informed and technically literate adjusts prices frequently to maximize sales 4: Steam doesn't have a lot of say about pricing, the publisher sets the price and things work fine 5: PC game brick and mortar sales are essentially dead which makes all this possible

Then Apple started building the iPad and suggested that ebook pricing should move to an «agency model», where the publishers set the price of the book and the retailer takes a 30 per cent cut.

How would Kindle nation help an author whose publisher set the price of their kindle edition at $ 12.99?

The clause addressed the fact that if Apple was using agency (with publishers setting prices) while Amazon was using the wholesale model (with Amazon setting prices at $ 9.99), Apple's prices wouldn't be competitive.

These sales numbers are not so surprising if we take into account that Amazon lets the publishers set the prices; the customers are drawn to the lower prices provided by indie publishers.

Apple goes on to say, «Just as we've allowed developers to set prices on the App Store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore.»

Publishers set the prices of books on Amazon, via the agency model.

In practice, this means that retailers — including Amazon (s amzn)-- no longer have to abide by terms under which the publishers set the price.

They operate an Agency Model whereby the publisher sets the price and pays the seller, in this case Apple, a set commission.

It comes in many forms, but they all go back to the same idea: publishers set the prices and stores are only able to marginally discount them (around 5 %).

-- Agency means that the publisher sets the price and the retailer takes a commission.

When Apple announced that it was going to get into the digital bookselling market, it introduced a pricing scheme wherein the publisher sets the price and the retailer / store gets a commission much like a real estate agent gets a commission when selling a house.

How often do you try and tell us the publisher sets the prices?

Both companies claim that the publisher sets the price, so can you offer any explanation as to why this price difference exists?