Sentences with phrase «think agency pricing»

Laura Owen [LO]: I think agency pricing actually is in the interest of any reader who supports a vibrant book - buying marketplace that is not dominated by one company — i.e., Amazon.

That said, I think agency pricing is unwise — and not just because it has attracted antitrust attention from the U.S. government and the European Union, among others, but because it isn't in the long - term interests of either readers or (I would argue) of publishers themselves.

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.

Part of the problem in sales for the BPHs is that they think agency pricing for eBooks is a really good idea.

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To those commenting about wanting agency pricing or something akin to it for the Big 5: It seems like it would be good for Indies (and might well be in the short term), but think about it this way.

But now I've had time to look at the so - called agency model of pricing... and I think it makes sense.

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3) Stephen Windwalker points out you have until June 22 to let the federal court know what you think of the Department of Justice's attempt to roll back agency pricing via its anti-trust lawsuit.

What I don't think people are really catching here is that due to the publishers» «agency model», Amazon gets 30 % of the sales price of an ebook they sell.

I think the whole point of the agency model is to rationalize that, and lower backlist prices toward the $ 5.99 price point.

And those of us who aren't thinking about the price, but whether under an agency model we'll be able to afford books at all... we're scratching our heads wondering why?

But the shortsightedness of publishers falling fast for the Agency plan is that they actually think that if they keep e-books away from the customers by either delays or pricing, that customers will go to hardcovers or pay the 50 % higher price for a digital version.

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So far, there is no reason to think that this can not occur under the agency pricing model as long as the distribution market for e-books remains competitive.

There is also no reason to think that the agency model will lead to higher consumer prices once the e-book market matures.

We think part of it is the new agency pricing and all the Big Five raising their prices so much.

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But I think we might be a couple years away from breaching 50 % — which might require a technological advance like color e-Ink or foldable screens, or a game - changing event in the publishing world, such as superstar authors going independent and straight to e-books, big publishers embracing e-books, or lowering of e-book pricing (perhaps as a result of the agency model going away).

This reminds me of how the head of MacMillan — I think that's who it was — back at the start of the agency pricing debate tried telling everyone that publishers had double charges on editing, cover design and layout, among others, when it comes to e-books and print books.

I think «proven authors» will keep their prices relatively high, even with the demise of the agency model.

Whether one thinks it is a good thing or a bad thing that the deepest - pocketed retailer can spend $ 20 a copy on a big book to promote a price perception depends on your point of view but this clearly demonstrates what the publishers, the retailers, and the consumers face when a high - profile, high - demand book is sold without the price discipline of agency terms.

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.

What do you think about agency pricing Charlie?

Frankly, I don't think this will be nearly as dangerous for Amazon or DC as the pushing publishers to adopt the agency pricing model will be for the publishers or Apple.

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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.

You are right that agency pricing does to some extent protect independent booksellers, or allow them to compete on more equal footing with Amazon, and I am as much in favor of a competitive bookselling marketplace as I think you are.

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.

The agency price model was designed to raise the anchoring price and to some extent, I think that they were successful for the high end books.

Many industry observers think that the majors are losing ebook share because of their higher prices, and Mike Shatzkin has written up a remarkably compelling theory that it's Amazon that wanted a return to agency pricing in the new contracts, not the Big Five.

The more I think about it the more I believe that this is a smoke screen used by a government agency to rally public discord away from their own bureaucracies which via their HST, land transfer taxes and mortgage insurance rules — all percentages calculated on the sale price of the home by the way — do more to inflate house prices without providing any evidentiary benefit to the homeowner.

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But just think how much easier it is to cool our homes and cook our food at this price — or operate a factory, farm, office, store, hospital, school, church... or government agency.»

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