Instead, the net metering rate will be
set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.
Now, the net metering rate will be
set at wholesale prices — which are significantly lower.
Not exact matches
Prior to 2009, many publishers
set a
wholesale price for e-books
at a 20 % discount from the equivalent physical book,
at which point Amazon's $ 9.99
price point roughly matched the
wholesale price of many of its e-books.
The trial judge also concluded that (para 285) «the threat of sale by independent retailers to the major supermarket chains constrained Metcash's
wholesale pricing decisions» and that the competitive constraint imposed by Franklins was much less than that imposed by the major supermarket chains - these findings of the trial judge were
set out by Yates J
at para 297 as follows:
Dog Ear Publishing allows you to
set your
wholesale discount and book retail
price at any level you like — most self - publishing companies do not.
Initially, publishers
set their e-book list
prices at a few dollars off the print
price, and then gave Amazon a 50 percent discount, meaning that Amazon was receiving new books
at an average
wholesale price of about $ 12 — and was selling them for $ 9.99 and below.
While Amazon originally worked under the
wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks
at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency
pricing model, which allowed publishers to
set the
price of the ebooks for the retailers.
That was meant to replace the
wholesale model, where sellers like Amazon sold ebooks
at prices they
set themselves, paying publishers flat rates.
You
set the
price, control the timing, buy books
at wholesale, plus you keep the rights and ALL of your royalties.
With a
wholesale model, Apple would purchase e-books and resell them
at a
price of its choosing, whereas with an agency model «a publisher
sets the retail
price and the retailer sells the e-book as its agent.»
Make the book returnable, and offer the 55 % Ingram distributor discount (which they then offer 40 % as a
wholesale discount to vendors) which means that in order to make a sliver of profit, you will have to
set the retail
price at and around $ 12 - 14, depending.
In this case that would mean Hachette
setting a
wholesale price and letting amazon sell it
at the
price they want (wait a second that is what happened before Apple and Hachette et al decided to collude to increase the
price — if that is what they did).
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.
If your book is
priced at $ 15.00 and you
set a 53 %
wholesale discount, the
wholesale price of the book will be $ 7.05.
Other publishers are still using the
wholesale model, under which they
set an e-book's list
price but the etailer can charge whatever it wants (and can sell an e-book
at a loss).
It paid a
wholesale price for eBooks then resold them
at a retail
price set by Amazon.
Publishers use
wholesale pricing for print books: They
set the books» list
price; retailers buy the books
at a discount and can then resell them
at whatever
price they want.
If the retailer is paying a
set price at the
wholesale level and has the ability to discount, it is a
wholesale model, else anything with an MSRP would be considered agency
pricing.
Buy
at wholesale,
set any
price and CHOOSE YOUR PROFIT!
The heart of their cases is the claim that BP breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and the «open
price term» provision of the UCC by selling them
wholesale gasoline
at prices that were commercially unreasonable and
set in bad faith.
Since the company was playing catch - up to some extent with Amazon's Kindle —
at least in the e-reader department — it came up with a way of getting the major publishing houses on its side: instead of the
wholesale -
pricing approach that existed prior to Apple's entry into the market, which gave retailers (including Amazon) the ability to
set book
prices wherever they wanted, the agency model would allow publishers to
set the
price.