Sentences with phrase «retail ebook sellers»

The blogger pointed out that you can't count on retail ebook sellers or their cloud storage to keep your books accessible,... Read more»

The blogger pointed out that you can't count on retail ebook sellers or their cloud storage to keep your books accessible, and gave several examples of ebook retailers who changed their policies or went under.

Not exact matches

In what was supposed to be a move to give the independent booksellers a leg up over major chain retailers, online retailers, AND ebook distributors, the publishers would set one price per title and no seller would be allowed to discount that title more than five percent.

This foresight allowed her company to be the exclusive seller of the ebooks, distributing them for unheard of royalties through major online retail platforms.

In a climate in which internet start ups come and go every day, how can a brand - new ebook seller plan to compete with the likes of established retailers like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or even with smaller - but - popular sites like Smashwords?

The DOJ claims that Apple and various publishers colluded to get the industry to switch from retail pricing (where book sellers like Amazon set ebook prices) to the agency model, where the publishers themselves determine ebook prices.

You'll have your favorite eBook seller, just like you have your favorite paper book retailer today.

Of course, you may be familiar with some of the major ebook sellers, but there are a number of different retailers and wholesalers in the marketplace.

The online retailer «threatened the long - term, overall health of the book publishing industry,» said Penguin, «by creating barriers to entry, undercutting the margins and incentives of other sellers, fostering a perception of ebooks as lowcost commodities, and threatening the viability of book publishers and authors, as well as other book selling outlets vital to the marketing and promotion of books».

The horizontal portion of the conspiracy constitutes per se illegal conduct in that the Publishers Defendants and Apple agreed to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain the retail consumer prices the eBook versions of hardcover best sellers and new releases at artificially high levels.

Shots fired in the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette in the US over profit margins on ebooks: so little faith does the online retail behemoth appear to have in resolving the situation quickly that, in a post on its Kindle forum earlier this week, it recommended that anyone in urgent need of a Hachette title «purchase a new or used version from one of our third - party sellers or from one of our competitors.»

For some reason, this is something that many publishers objected to deeply in the ebook arena — but in the physical arena, their American retail resellers have been doing it with best - sellers all along.