Sentences with phrase «same agency model»

They are able to do this before audiobooks don't abide by the same agency model that applies to e-books.

What's to stop MacMillan et als from using the same agency model to sell paper books as well?

Soon after that contract was signed, the other Big 5 contracts came due, and they all asked for the same Agency Model arrangement.

Publishers are willing to experiment with different models for audiobook distribution because they don't abide by the same agency model that applies to e-books.

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The most recent attempt started in 2010 when five major U.S. publishers — MacMillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, and Penguin — entered into a so - called agency pricing model with Apple, then allegedly used the Apple deal as leverage to force other retailers into adopting the same pricing model.

So, in the name of antitrust, the level playing field of the past two years — agency model e-books were priced the same whether sold by Amazon, Barnes & Noble or independent bookstores — will likely revert to a situation where a near - monopoly power determines pricing and most other retailers see their already - smaller market share shrink.

Just days after Amazon conceded to MacMillian's demands for an agency model for e-book pricing (ie, variable pricing), Robert Murdoch's Harper Collins started rattling it's saber that it wanted the same deal.

What is wrong is the collusion that is alleged to have taken place immediately prior to the big five publishers and Apple entering into the agency model agreement, an agreement that then had to be made with other retailers or those same publishers would be in violation of their contract with Apple.

Those same five Big Six publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Macmillan — ultimately came to agreements with Amazon in the US over the wholesale - versus - agency pricing model.

Amazon has stated that it offered HarperCollins the same contractual terms that it offered to the other Big Five houses, but the publisher has currently said it is holding out for agency pricing, a model which will mandate that retailers can not discount books.

Because, according to the agency model terms, Publisher A is required to sell his e-books at the same price everywhere.

Wherever the publisher is a participant in the agency - model price - fixing scheme, the two prices will often be the same.

I agree the 10 % would remain the same but it's 10 % of the publisher's revenue, not the retailer's sale price, and under the new agency model the publisher's revenue (as Macmillan has explicitly stated) would be less, hence the author's revenue would also be less.

However, according to the Commission's preliminary investigation this clause was meant to ensure that the publishers would compel other retailers to switch to the agency model on similar terms as those agreed with Apple, and this switch would occur at approximately the same time.

Long story short: Prices are pretty much the same as they were a few weeks ago, but there have been tiny declines in the percentage of books at the price points to which Apple, the Apple 5 publishers, and the agency model were supposedly driving ebook prices:

Publishers HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have signed a deal with Amazon to follow the agency pricing model for their books — the same deal publishers have with Apple for the iBookstore — allowing the two publishers to set their own books prices.

Interestingly, the agency model is the same model that Amazon and Apple employ with other content providers.

«And there is more,» she continues, moving on to descriptions of separate meetings that four of the Publisher Defendants had with Amazon «on the very same day in which they made identical demands on Amazon to switch to the agency model.»

Additionally, the Agency Model means that Amazon will have the same price as every other store for most books.

Publishers will sell both the same books, and at the same prices, and with the Agency Model restrictions — effectively killing the biggest possible differentiator.

This might warrant slapping them with a fine for not obeying the bad German law of Buchpreisbindung (comparable to the agency - model, all stores have the same price for a certain book).

For NON agency publishers the removal of the DRM requirement would let the retailer drop their price and still make the same margin after costs under the wholesale model.

Switching to the agency model usually results in higher e-book prices (for example, bestsellers rising from $ 9.99 to $ 12.99 or more once Amazon is no longer allowed to discount them), and should ensure that prices are the same at any e-book retailer.

Even if Apple and Amazon were on the same agency arrangement with a Publisher, and that Publisher were able to move the retail price of the e-book to the top of the Apple price tier and sell it for $ 12.99, the Publisher would still receive less revenue under the agency model: $ 9.10 instead of the $ 13.00 in revenue under the wholesale model.

He said he did not know who came up with the idea of all publishers going to an agency model at the same time.

Cue quickly realized that, in order for the agency model to work, the same deal must be struck with all electronic book vendors, lest Apple's prices be undercut by other retailers.

Macmillan offered Amazon the opportunity to buy Kindle editions on the same «agency» model as it will sell e-books to Apple for the iPad.

The EC reports in its Official Journal (PDF) that «by jointly switching the sale of ebooks from a wholesale model to an agency model with the same key terms on a global basis, the Four Publishers and Apple engaged in a concerted practice with the object of raising retail prices of ebooks in the EEA [European Economic Area, which includes the 27 countries in the European Union plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein],» breaching EEA competition rules.

Many in the traditional publishing world believed that adoption of the» agency model» was the biggest news of 2010 in the book business, and perhaps many of the same people will see the demise of the agency model as the biggest news of the next year or two.

The same day Apple announced launching the iPad, it was also announced that Apple already struck deals with Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster to switch to the Agency model for Apple's iBookstore — the application on Apple's iPad that functions as an eBook reader (thus competing directly with the Amazon Kindle).

-- The agency model requires publishers to price their e-books the same at all e-bookstores.

Their role would be as a retailer / distributor who merely takes a percentage of the sales, in much the same way Apple is doing with Penguin, HarperCollins, et al., under it's much discussed «agency model.»

Under the agency model, Publisher A sets price B and Retailer C receives some fraction of B. Under the wholesale model, however, Retailer C is free to set the retail price as high as that same said B set by the Publisher.

Under the agency model, the publisher is the only party that can discount e-books, and an e-book's price must be the same across all retailers (i.e., an e-book can't go on sale at just one retailer).

Unlike other credit scores, the Vantage Score model applies the same algorithm to each of the three credit reporting agencies data.

However, because the data each credit bureau collects varies, there may be significant differences between agencies» scores even if they are using the same scoring model.

A credit reporting agency doesn't know whether you're replying for a balance transfer offer or attempting to increase your overall credit, so scoring models interpret both actions the same way.

Yet the same weather agencies, often using the same computer models, since 1990 have said with almost absolute certainty that their 50 - and 100 - year forecasts are correct.

The Commission took the view that jointly switching the sale of e-books from a wholesale model to an agency model, with the same key pricing terms on a global basis, amounted to a concerted practice, with the object of either raising the retail prices of e-books, or preventing the emergence of lower prices of e-books, in the EEA (in other words, a hardcore restriction).

At the same time, Reliance Life would continue to capitalise on its strong agency distribution model and efforts would be made to improve the agency productivity, he added.

The same will majorly happen by maintaining growth at a rate of 15 % in its agency model and rising growth anticipated in its bancassurance model.

All agencies will start by asking for the same information: The make, model and year of your car; your name, address, age, profession and driving history.

No other details have been revealed by Geekbench but it's worth noting that this particular Gionee smartphone bearing the same model number was also approved by China's regulatory agency TENAA a couple of months ago in September.