Sentences with phrase «see agency pricing»

I think they saw agency pricing as a way of protecting their traditional profit margins, and they used Apple's desperation to get into the book - selling business as a lever to get what they wanted.

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Oakland saw a 86 percent jump in home prices in the past five years according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

«I've seen him stand up for reform at agencies like the MTA and against congestion pricing.

To alleviate traffic during Amtrak's repair work at Penn Station, the MTA is currently offering trucks half - priced fares at MTA crossings such as the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Lhota said the agency has seen a 10 percent increase in truck volumes during those hours, a «clear indication that congestion pricing works.»

** Prices do not include tax, tag, title, pre-delivery service fee (see specific dealership for amount) Private Tag Agency Fee, which charges represent costs and profit to the dealer for items such as inspecting, cleaning and adjusting vehicles and preparing documents related to the sale.

I just ran a price drop and definitely saw an increase in sales but I still don't know how to effectively manage my AMS so that I'm not spending more than I'm making.I asked 4 other promotion agencies to promote me on social media.

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.

Following the Hachette dispute with Amazon over wholesale versus agency pricing — a dispute that saw Amazon remove Hachette titles from its website for a time — other publishers fell in line to try to negotiate new terms with the largest book retailer on Earth.

October 14, see also: Terry Pratchett's «Snuff»: an ebook full of typos — HarperCollins charges premium Agency Pricing for unproofed ebook.

No, I see this venture into publishing as a way to rub the noses of the legacy publishers, especially those who adopted the agency model of e-book pricing, in the excrement that will soon be hitting the fan.

I can see why Apple is jaded with the platform, they colluded with publishers to implement agency pricing and had... [Read more...]

Amazon.com and Macmillan had their very public negotiations over e-book pricing (which saw Amazon suspend sales of Macmillan titles for a time), and Hachette also announced that they, like Macmillan, would base pricing of e-books on an agency model.

I can see why Apple is jaded with the platform, they colluded with publishers to implement agency pricing and had to pay over a hundred million to appease the Justice Department and give that money back to the customers that paid for ebooks.

I really haven't seen a benefit to either platform over the other, all of the stores have switched to agency pricing so it is almost irrelevant between B&N and Amazon from a price and availability perspective in ebooks.

Last week saw the declaration by Amazon that the dissolution of agency pricing in the US was a «big win for customer» and that they look forward to lowering prices on more ebooks in the future.

Some of the events of 2011 were of the «you coulda seen it coming» variety — Borders closing or Random House going to the agency pricing model.

It's great to see someone contest the Agency Model pricing on legal grounds.

If you want all the detail, take a moment to see his article, but to summarize, his stance is that the Department of Justice (DoJ) should not take action to weaken or dismantle agency pricing for ebooks.

Rather than the great blood - letting of discounts many warned would be imposed by Amazon in the wake of the agency rollbacks (required by the big publishers» settlements with the DoJ), we're seeing quite a lot of prices above $ 10 and they're holding, at least, as I see them, relatively steady.

If you see the first alternative, you know you are buying a book that was published by an author or publisher who never took part in agency pricing.

What that means is that, by the time this is over, we might again see a variation of agency pricing — remember, DoJ didn't say it was inherently bad.

So why should the Agency Publisher lower their price since they didn't see any cost savings?

I've seen countless posts by readers decrying (a) high e-book prices (the agency model and $ 14.99 e-books), (b) delayed e-book releases, (c) publishers blocking text - to - speech, (d) annoying DRM attached to e-books (and the incompatibilities that result), and (e) recently, publishers blocking the lending feature (which B&N has had for a while and Amazon just added).

I'm glad to see the discounts — thanks to agency pricing going away, at least for the next 2 years or so.

We'll start back before April Fools Day, 2010 — the day that the agency model took effect — and continue right through to today and beyond by looking at some of the available tea leaves to see where prices, and the book business in general, are likely to go in the future.

Now with agency pricing back in full swing, and publishers putting whatever price they want on their eBooks (per the Hachette / Amazon dispute), I think you're going to see a surge of pricing changes in 2015.

Ever since the Agency Pricing model took effect, most readers of eBooks have seen the prices of eBooks skyrocket.

The reason I'd like to see it is because I want to see how the legacy publishers using the agency model of pricing v. those who follow the philosophy that you don't have to charge as much for e-books as you do for hard covers.

If it is easy to separate out the five big houses, it would be interesting to see separately how each of their data compares from a year ago to today, and see even more clearly if the switch to agency pricing is likely the biggest factor.

I'd hate to see publishers make that same mistake — and I think agency pricing just encourages them to cling to the past instead of trying to adapt to the future.

That's why you'll sometimes see print books priced lower than e-books: Agency pricing gives Amazon no control over e-book pricing, but it can still price print books at whatever it wants.

If you want to get the jump on Don Linn's webcast on the 28th (see the item above) on issues around «agency pricing» and the DoJ actions, Jane Litte's explication of the points involved is a great place to start.

Second, if agency pricing keeps up and digital sales grow while paper sales decrease, BN is seeing a loss of overall revenue as it is only getting 30 % of a sale versus 50 % of a sale (this is not an original thought of mine.

Update: I took some screenshots of prices last night to see how the new Agency prices would compare.

Agency pricing doesn't have Amazon's ability to turn on a dime with pricing so it can be quite annoying to see books that cost more than the paperback copy and even worse more than the hardcover after the paperback has come out.

Well, today I see a pair of articles analyzing the dip in Q2 e-book sales and attributing it to: post-Xmas buying and agency model pricing, and that indie author retailers like Smashwords weren't being included in the data.

One of the major reasons seen for the seismic shift from trad to indie is the return to agency pricing by the Big 5, which has brought sharp rises in ebook prices from the trad publishers.

A big part of the underlying case turns on «most favored nation» clauses and the publishers» decision to impose so - called «agency pricing,» which saw retailers like Amazon and Apple take a commission from a price set by the publishers.

But in the case of HarperCollins, we're already seeing that even if Apple would prefer agency pricing, price bands and MFNs for books, it's willing to compete on price in the absence of those things.

It adds that the shift in market share from Big 5 to indies has steepened since the return of agency ebook pricing last year which saw trad publishers making big hikes to their ebook prices.

Go to the Government / Federal Agency Market - at - a-Glance page to see Agency bond price information.

This period of low volatility in mortgage rates is exactly the opposite of what we saw in 2013, when rates rocketed and Annaly Capital Management and American Capital Agency felt the pinch of falling prices for their portfolios of mortgage securities.

And then we will compare the pricing against other online travel agencies to see if it is really a good deal.

Price paid to a dealer for bonds when the dealer acts as principal in a transaction, i.e., the dealer sells bonds that he owns, as opposed to an agency transaction (see agency transaction).

And then we will compare the pricing against other online travel agencies to see if it is really a good deal.

As for the future, both BNEF and the International Energy Agency (IEA) now expect we will see EV sticker prices directly competitive with that of gas - powered cars within a decade — and they will continue to drop after that.

Wall Street Journal — Low oil prices and economic growth have helped drive up consumer demand for energy across the world in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerships.

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

Only an independent agency (like Choice Mutual) can pull quotes from multiple insurance companies to see which ones would offer you the best price on your burial plan.

In forcing agencies to compete on price, clients will inevitably see less value — less «beef» — being delivered.