This is also complicated by an increasing prevalence of winner - takes - all network effects in what's become a digital / software - driven world — to win the prize, and / or feed the «flywheel» (lower prices means greater
volume means lower prices...), many companies are willing to accept short / medium term reduced profitability, or even losses, as they seek to capture much larger future profits.
Not exact matches
Raynor cautions that this doesn't
mean businesses should put «gold - plated Aeron chairs and Godiva chocolates in all the conference rooms,» but that businesses should figure out where they are better than their competition and exploit that gap with higher
prices or higher
volume, not
lower costs.
Providing a consistent product at such large
volumes inevitably
means lower quality, buying through exporters (and thus
lower prices for producers) and an inability to truly police the growing methods of thousands of farmers.
We operate our business on a high
volume,
low price model, which
means our
prices are very often the
lowest prices you \ \ \'ll find.
The
pricing regulations Amazon requires for indies and even their own imprints support the company's belief that
lower prices mean more money through higher
volumes of sales.
The ease of buying a book (especially at a
lower price)
means, in theory, that your
volume will go up and therefore your royalties.
More importantly may be the data that shows that, despite criticism from the industry, self - published and indie published titles did not destroy book
pricing with their 99 - cent books; however, the fourth trend did demonstrate that book
prices have taken an overall drop, but this is largely due to high -
volume online retailers who can negotiate these
prices, not just indie authors who strategize on
low pricing as a
means to drive book sales.
All printing methods were derivatives of the last industrial revolution and, like all mass
means of production, worked on the principle that
volume production equals
low prices.
The higher
prices mean traditional publishers, which agree individual deals with Amazon, will be netting considerably more for German business on a per - sale basis than they do in the US and UK, although at much
lower volume.