Sentences with phrase «version of the agency pricing»

The letter also says that the new agreement with Amazon is a return to a «version of agency pricing that, with some limited exceptions, gives control of e-book pricing to Simon & Schuster.»

An email from Carolyn Reidy (pictured), president and c.e.o. at Simon & Schuster, said that the agreement, which covers print and digital books, is «a return to a version of agency pricing that, with some limited exceptions, gives control of e-book pricing to Simon & Schuster».

It addresses our mutual concerns about preserving the value of our intellectual property in the marketplace, as it is a return to a version of agency pricing that, with some limited exceptions, gives control of e-book pricing to Simon & Schuster, while providing us the flexibility to deliver great prices for readers.»

While no official announcement has been made — that I have found — sources in the know say that Amazon and Simon & Schuster have inked a new deal with puts in place a modified version of the agency pricing model.According to Publishers Weekly, the new deal will take effect the beginning of next year.

Not exact matches

The final version of the pricing tiers in the Apple Agency Agreements contained the $ 12.99 and $ 14.99 price points for bestsellers, discussed earlier, and also established prices for all other newly released titles based on the hardcover list price of the same title.

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.

HarperCollins and Hachette are the first major publishers to absolve the agency pricing model for the UK version of Amazon.

So I was dismayed and disappointed when I discovered its publisher (Viking, a part of Penguin Group) has used the potentially unlawful agency model of eBook pricing to force Amazon to sell the Kindle version of the book for $ 9 more than what it charges for the hardback version.

In the very short version of this story, Apple got together with big publishing and invented something called the agency pricing model.

The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their ebooks higher than the price Amazon charges for the print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored, low - priced ebooks; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.

For a look back at the history of Apple negotiating with book publishers and a little more on how the agency model came about, I recommend this WSJ article from 2010 and Michael Cader at Publishers Marketplace's look at how the introduction of the iPad gave publishers «the opportunity to change the basic selling terms of ebooks with at least one major trading partner in a way that lets [them] take back control of pricing and reassert their vision of the value of an electronic version of a book.»

The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their e-books higher than the price Amazon charges for the print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored, low - priced e-books; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.