Sentences with phrase «under the agency model»
This is because ebooks are sold under the agency model where the publisher sets the price and gets 70 % of each sale, and the retailer gets the remaining 30 %.
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Now, of course, the publishers stand to lose even more under the agency model.
Add into the mix the fact that publishers have admitted they make less money per title under the agency model than they did before and you have the answer to who is harmed.
I think she was asking why ebooks should be sold under the agency model when paper books are sold in the customary way.
In addition, Macmillan and Penguin are fighting the lawsuit and can continue selling e-books under the agency model until a settlement or decision is reached (unless a judge explicitly forbids them to use the model before that).
In fact, since agency prices went into effect on some e-books in the US, unit sales of books priced under the agency model have slowed to nearly half the rate of growth of the rest of Kindle book sales.
I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for ebooks under the agency model which will become effective in early March.
That statement was that Apple could not engage in book discounting under the agency model for at least two years, and then it could only negotiate terms of the so - called «agency model» (in which the publishers set the prices of their books, not the retailer) with one publisher at a time spread out over a period of six months each.
Of course, many of those condemning Rutherford and those like him also point to the Bowker report about the price of e-books not rising under the agency pricing model as evidence the Department of Justice is wrong in claiming prices will rise under the agency model.
Instead, the agreements allow e-book retailers to discount prices up to the aggregate cost — generally a 30 % commission under the agency model — of the discount computed over the course of the contract, which is generally a year.»
Here's the Authors Guild's guess about the compensation Amazon is offering the Wylie authors: The agreement is most likely under the agency model, with Amazon paying Odyssey 70 % of the retail price of the books.
@Ron Taylor Apple's 30 % transaction fee surely only works under the agency model where the publisher sets the price... if Apples is now setting customer prices themselves AND taking a third of that price then that just allows them to set prices artificially low without any penalties — which would be an innovation, but not a good one.
There is no word yet if EU customers will be eligible for refunds for past purchases under the Agency model, like those in the USA will soon enjoy.
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.
The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers» control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $ 9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases.
In Cue's first meeting with a publisher, with HarperCollins, an executive floated the idea of working with Apple under an agency model.
The London Book Fair is buzzing about alleged e-book price collusion under the agency model.
Amazon's decision is also a victory for Apple's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, who first pitched the idea of selling e-books under the agency model to book publishers earlier this year.
Many Kindle Store customers didn't like paying 30 % to 100 % more for ebooks under the agency model, and Amazon's ability to let a (few hundred) thousand flowers bloom in the Kindle Store gave those customers lots of other places to go.
The majority of the Company's eBook sales are sold under the agency model.
Under the agency model, we will sell the digital editions of our books to consumers through our retailers.
Last week Amazon and Barnes & Noble begun issuing credits for eBooks that customers purchased from 2010 to 2012 under the agency model.
«Under the agency model, [Macmillan] will sell the digital editions of our books to consumers through our retailers.
Then, less than a week later in New York, both Hachette and HarperCollins executives told Mr. Cue in their initial meetings with him that they wanted to sell e-books under an agency model, a dramatic departure from the way books had been sold for over a century.
«Under the agency model, a publisher sets a retail price for a specific book, which establishes a level playing field for all resellers,» the organization said in a statement.
Under the agency model, a publisher sets a retail price for a specific book, which establishes a level playing field for all resellers.
Under the agency model, Amazon was forced to sell ebooks at a price set by the publishers; this outcome was seen as collusion on the parts of the publishers named in the lawsuit and Apple.
Under the agency model, and working with multiple distributors, Macmillan will offer over 1,200 backlist eBooks from its Minotaur Books mystery and crime fiction imprint, a part of the St. Martins Publishing Group.
Amazon is guilty of keeping e-book prices as low as possible so that readers can read more books then they could under the Agency Model.
Under the agency model, the publisher sets the final sale price, and Amazon gets a flat 30 % cut of each sale.
As of today, 5 large publishers told Amazon they must sell their e-books under the agency model (physical books remain on the retail model).
Under the agency model (described in further detail here), publishers set the final sale price of an e-book, and the retailer (like Amazon, B&N, or Apple) collects a cut, usually 30 %.
Under the agency model, when the publisher mandated a retail price of $ 12.99 to $ 14.99 for an ebook, it stood to receive 70 % from Amazon or another retailer — or somewhere between $ 9 and $ 10.50.
Both these deals are under the Agency Model — 70 % cut for Publishers and the freedom to set their own prices.
Under the agency model, book publishers set their own e-book prices and the retailer (agent) receives a commission.
But under the Agency model, Amazon earns 30 % of the ebook price.
Under the agency model, it can't.
Random House is not involved in any of the investigations and is free to continue selling e-books under the agency model, as are any other publishers who adopted the model later.
Macmillan and Penguin will continue to sell their e-books under the agency model.