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Agency Pricing Settlement: Higher prices on the way?
September 10, 2012 | 2:32 pm
By Joanna Cabot
An article over at Paid Content proposes an interesting theory: That the recent Department of Justice ruling on the agency pricing issue could actually lead to higher book prices—not lower.
This seems inexplicable at first: Only three of the Big Six publishers were named in the ruling, but the others may find themselves lowering prices in order to compete. And retailers are free to discount books as they see fit—packaging them into bundles, and so on. So … where's the problem?
The problem is that there's a clause in the settlement, stating that the retailers' discounts cannot exceed their commissions overall. (No loss leading, in other words.) So they clearly won't be able to bundle or discount all titles. The catalogue from any given publisher has to balance out overall.
As the article explains:
"Publishers Lunch's Cader raises the seemingly counterintuitive point that settling publishers may actually raise their ebooks' list prices. Nothing in the settlement prevents them from doing so, and "higher list prices could 'use up' a retailer's annual discount pool more quickly and provide some protection against devaluation in the marketplace of a publisher's biggest properties."
Think of it this way:
Let's say that you, the publisher, previously had an 'agency' price which netted you $10 per book in commissions. Retailers were not allowed to discount it. And you could get the full $10.
Now, let's say that under the new system, retailers can offer a discount. But no more than, perhaps, 20 percent, or they'll use up their 'discount pool.'
Now, you are still allowed to set your own price here: Agency pricing in and of itself isn't illegal—it's only the 'price fixing' aspect of forbidding competion through bundling and discounts. So, you might say to yourself, Well, I still want to net $10 a book. So, you'll raise your prices to whatever level you need to, in order to make sure that after the maximum possible discount percentage is applied, you still come out on top, financially speaking. And that is perfectly legal under the new ruling.
Of course, at some point, market forces will kick in here and publishers will have to adjust their offerings—and their prices—to what people are willing to pay. But the ruling might not be the clear-cut victory for consumers that it seems to be. We'll have to see what happens once the current contracts expire, and publishers renegotiate under the new terms.
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Looks like HarperCollins books at Amazon are now non-Agency priced (although it looks like a work in progress right now).
Looking at a few of Kim Harrison's titles I see a drop overall. 'A Perfect Blood' which was $12.99 is now $10.94 and a lot of books that were $7.99 are now $7.59
The logic here is really convoluted and doesn't make much sense. If a publisher wants to make $10 on a book you set the wholesale price at $10. It dosn't matter if it retails to consumer for $12, $20 or $0.99, the publisher still gets $10. There's this bizare train of thought floating around by the anti-amazon brigade that Amazon discounting meant publishers were getting less money. This is a really strange concept fo retail.
If the cost of ebooks doesn't drop from the traditional publishers, we may see a rise in the cost of indie publisher's books too. If the market is saying ebooks are worth $10 then they will rise to that level.
@PA Wilson, a lot of indie publishers (not talking self pubs here) have already had prices in the $10 range. I've run into quite a few in the $8-$14 range.
BTW: Books on Board has all HarperCollins titles on sale now according to an email they just sent out.
I think the publishers already cut off their noses to spite their faces. A lot of readers abandoned them when they first implemented the agency model and have no reason to return. We now have thousands of free, indie, low-cost backlist, and library books to choose from. I don't have to purchase another book as long as I live.
I still buy books but am far more picky and NEVER pay retail prices. I have one exception, the new No Easy Day, only because I thought it may become unavailable because of the investigation and because I didn't want to wait for the library to get the ebook version. Very few books, and no fiction, will ever fall in that category for me.
They lost me forever.
Uh, the logic there isn't just convoluted: it's *wrong*.
It confuses List price with wholesale price:
"Well, I still want to net $10 a book. So, you'll raise your prices to whatever level you need to, in order to make sure that after the maximum possible discount percentage is applied, you still come out on top, financially speaking."
The discounting at issue is retailer-to-consumer discounting, not publisher-to-retailer.
And what is limited by the settlement is the retailer's ability to go below cost, not the percentage of discount from list.
Given the Obama administration's behavior in a wide spectrum of areas, the DOJ's goal clearly isn't lower consumer prices. It's to increase federal control over every area of our economic life.
Note how much government intrusion this 'settlement' involves. Discounting some ebooks means you can't discount others. Every wholesale and retail price of every ebook will have to be reported and regulated by the feds. That won't be cheaper for anyone, and if you're a small publisher, the bookkeeping will be a horrible pain. Discount one book a bit too much near the start of the year and a publisher or retailer will not be free to discount a hot new book near the end of the year to jumpstart its sales.
Much the same thing happened with the financial services industry bailout. Rather than prosecute wrong doing like the public wants, the Obama administration opted to create strangulation levels of regulation even on banks that never made the blunders that created the mess to start with. For the full details on that, you might want read Dinesh D'Souza's The Roots of Obama's Rage or see the documentary 2016, now playing in most major cities.
Given our narrow focus, we're only seeing how counter-productive this is in publishing, particularly how it works to the advantage of market-dominating bully Amazon. D'Souza's thesis is that Obama was being unwittingly honest when he described his life's goal as implementing "Dreams from my Father." His father was a Kenyan socialist who hated the economic success of Western democracies. What better way to carry out the rage of his father against the U.S. than to cripple our economies, creating the longest economic downturn in seventy years?
And that's not conspiracy mongering. When an economy is down, you don't:
* Increase regulation, which drives up costs and increases uncertainty.
* Radically alter health care, adding mandates to what is already one of the largest costs for most businesses. The uncertainty of all that scares the daylights out of businesses and makes them reluctant to hire. Hence the high employment, particularly among you adults.
* Threaten higher taxes on everyone making over $250,000 a year. Where I live in Washington state, we rejected precisely that sort of taxation because $250,000 what a small businessman who can't afford to incorporate earns and from which he grows his business.. Tax him heavily, and he can't grow his business, hiring more people. The fear of that happening keeps down growth. Why start a business if you're going to be demonized and taxed for succeeding?
* Drive the nation deeper and deeper into debt. More and more of our taxes will go to servicing that debt. Even liberals are starting to wake up to what that means for social programs. Money that goes to Chinese banks isn't money that feeds hungry children here.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. Bullying these publishers is on a par with berating Joe the Plumber, prosecuting Gibson Guitar, bashing the Koch's, demonizing the 1%, etc. It cripples our society, setting everyone against everyone.
Last but not least, going after digital books makes absolutely no sense from a market perspective. In the print world, large publishers, with their well-oiled distribution systems could dominate markets and at least partly keep prices high. Only they could push books into most bookstores. You have to be big to make big sales. That's what Oprah discovered when she tried to push books from unknown authors and small publishers. She created a demand that in the paper print world, they could not supply. The result was a disaster.
But in the digital market, a mere author with no publisher behind him can see his sales go from a few dozens a week to hundreds of thousands a few weeks later. No printing presses or warehouses are needed. The playing field may not be flat, but it's far more so than for almost any other industry in human history. And in that sort of market, no one can dictate high prices. If the Big Six set their prices too high, people will do their reading from the Little 6000.
And there is absolute no consumer-oriented rationale for regulating that sort of lively, highly competitive market. And yet that's what our current DOJ is doing. We need to face that in this lawsuit crippling innovation and growth in publishing may be a feature rather than a bug.
If the Big Six have so much trouble standing up to the DOJ that half of them have to settle out of court, what do you think will happen to you and I if they go after us? And what if they are actually going after us for what we're saying, but using these complicated pricing regulations as a pretext?
That's certainly something to think about.
I suggest you do more research into how the wholesale pricing model works. The vendor still purchases the book for the publishers set price, however they can then sell it for what they want even if they lose money. In addition the publisher pays a smaller commission for sales.
Strangely, my mailbox was flooded today with price changes for books on my watch list. The kicker is that the same books whose prices are dropping on Amazon are going up in price in the Kobo store, therby creating a significant price difference between the two stores.
One example is Pandemonium, which was 9.99 in both stores. As of today, Amazon is selling it for 8.74, while the Kobo book is now 11.99! How is Kobo going to keep any US customers?!
PS: Pandemonium is a Harper Collins title, BTW.
Once again, like a broken record, I must ask: why are there Kindle stores in European countries, such as Spain which has a very high unemployment rate, and there isn't one in Canada which has a strong dollar and a lower unemployment rate. I cannot for the life of me make any sense of this. The only thing I can think of is the once Canadian company Kobo is causing *problems*. Remains a mystery to me.
@devini, I know there were reports in the past of Amazon having troubles in negotiations with Canadian cellular providers (which is big for their Whispernet service), but I don't know if that's still the case or if it was a significant stumbling block. I've always thought it odd that there is no Canadian specific Kindle store. All the other markets, besides the UK, where they've opened a Kindle store are non-English language markets perhaps that plays into it???
Hmm, it really does not make any sense, especially since they have French amd English books already. It's not like in Italy or Germany, where they had to start from 0. I also hate that there are so many books in the French store that I cannot my hands on, even though they are electronic, because of publisher georestrictions. Idiotic in this day and age.
Rich Adin over at An American Editor has a great blog post about this and concurs that higher prices may be on the way.


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We used this as a base while we toured Acadia and surrounding areas. Check-in was fast and easy, the manager gave us great recommendations on where to eat. Downtown Ellsworth has some great little places to shop and eat - don't miss them on your way to Acadia. Plenty of room for big rigs (almost all the sites are pull-through) and plenty of room for slides on all sides. Our site was level without the need for blocks. Laundry also clean. - TNBlondie
Sep 2014 - $25.00
Very nice, clean, very quiet, campground, we had fairly large pull-through, with full hookups including cable and Wi-Fi. Site was un-level but manageable with leveling blocks, sites are partially shaded, but not fully wooded. Wi-Fi worked but a little slow. Bathroom/showers were clean. Check-in was fast and went smooth, as the lady at the office was friendly and helpful, with great recommendations of where to eat and what to see. Our rate was with Passport America, for 2 of the 3 days. If there is a downside to this place, it's that it's 18 miles to Bar Harbor, but not that big a deal to us, as we go farther than that to get groceries at home. We would stay here again. - bukhrn
Ellsworth, Maine (map) | (207) 667-4778
Sites: 62 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 6 Reviews
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We stayed at Lamoine two nights as we were visiting Acadia NP for 1 day and couldn't get advance Summer bookings for Acadia's campgrounds. This campground was lovely: big, grassy, clean sites. Excellent clean toilets and showers (a bit busy, but there was a pleasant area to wait our turn). Some sites are literally on the ocean: but we easily walked from our site to numerous picnic tables on the water's edge. Very quiet and dark at night, perfect for stargazing: but don't forget your flashlight! About 25 minutes to Bar Harbor and Acadia NP visitor center (w/roadworks). No dump station, and none available on Mount Desert Island (at least so we were told), so dump before coming or for $$ fee in Ellsworth area. - Eli Israel
Aug 2009 - $15.00
Most important: site 50 is no longer an XL site. Evidently they changed numbers but it is not reflected on the Maine State Park reservation system. We stayed in site #33 which was nice and open with plenty of room between any other sites. Overall it is a nice park but there isn't much to do here unless you have a kayak or fish off the dock. There is no "town" (Ellsworth is about 10 minutes away) but you could make trips into Acadia from here, and it's probably 40 minute drive to Bar Harbor. If you are looking for freshwater to fill your tanks: you will need at least a 30-foot hose as the bathrooms (where the fresh water spigot is located) are about that far away from the road. Everything was really clean, although they always seemed to be mowing during the day. Otherwise, it is a very quiet park with lots of open lawn, picnic areas and a playground. - jayco32bhds2009
Jul 2008 - $25.00
Stayed overnight on site #46, which seemed to be the only one with a sandbox area for the tent. This was a medium sized site about a car width from the road. The tree coverage is moderate, so you can't see the other sites around you. It is a short walk to the bathhouse, which was pretty nice for facilities. Bundles of wood were 5$ and was a generous bundle. They provide a small wagon to carry it to your site. I reserved beforehand, and check in was 2 min. Most sites are level, but not all, but last row of sites facing the water seemed to be the best of the bunch. I would give this park a return visit. - thecyr
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Our rate reflects Good Sams discount. First, the good. The site was level. Second, the bad. The bill was wrong, someone was in our site, the cable would not work. We would not stay here again. - Pat and Rex
Aug 2013 - $37.00
We are retired full-time RVers from S. CA traveling the USA in a 24' travel trailer. We reserved our 4-night stay through our RPI membership which provided us a discount. Maine campgrounds are very pricey. We required satellite reception so it was recommended that we pick a site near to the office. The pond is very pretty. The staff is friendly. There is a nice gift store. While in the area, we visited Main Street in Ellsworth. Nice town. - daviescj
Jul 2013 - $41.00
Maine is beautiful this time of year. Campgrounds are really expensive, $600.00 for two weeks. We are at Patton Pond Encore Resort in Ellsworth, Maine. This park is advertised as a resort. A resort it is not. Resorts have things going on, entertainment, etc. This place even had outdoor toilets. More like a fish camp. It is an old KOA park. I should have known when we pulled in that when KOA gets out of a park, it is way outdated and not up to standards for today's parks. The problem was that they already had my money and a NO REFUND policy. The only good is that it is fairly quiet except on weekends when locals come in. It seems they bring in the whole family, and the place gets noisy. The dirt entrance road is about 3/4 mile long and full of potholes and wash boarding. You could damage your RV coming in. It is so dusty I had to wash our car before I opened the door. A posting on the internet said the road was this bad over a year ago. Nothing has been done to improve it. Our motorhome has a basement air conditioning unit. We had it running and it pulled in so much dust, we had to wash it out to make it work. I suggested to the office that Calcium Carbonate on the road would take care of the dusting problem after grading. The season rentals have all kinds of junk stored outside and under the units. The lots are small and really close together. Lots of large rock that makes it difficult to park. The place has ten showers, but five are out of order. The remainder were so dirty that I would not wash our dog in them. They have been out of order for over a three years. I confirmed the time line on the internet. The game room is locked most of the time. It is easy to tell that Thousand Trails/Encore is simply sucking all they can out of this park. - Santa P


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A MAN carried placards claiming a professional worker had raped boys, a court heard.
Zen Sparrow, 55, walked around outside the man's city office with the signs, Plymouth Magistrates' Court was told.
Homeless Sparrow admitted carrying placards making the allegations on 35 different days, but claimed he felt he was justified in doing so.
The former soldier denied displaying a sign which was threatening, abusive or insulting within the sight of a person likely to be caused harassment alarm or distress on September 21.
District judge David Parsons found him guilty of the public order offence after a trial.
He fined Sparrow £165, ordered that he pay £200 costs and £15 victim surcharge.
Sparrow, who insisted on being called Zen and refused to confirm his date of birth, said he would not pay.
He was also given a 10-year restraining order preventing any contact with the man or from entering the area around his office.
The Herald has decided not to identify the man targeted nor his profession.
A secretary at his office had earlier told the court she saw a man walking up and down outside the office at about 11.45am.
She added: "The placard read: Zen says: "Which (person's profession) rapes Plymouth boys?"
The woman then said he turned the sign around to reveal an anagram of the man's name.
She added: "It did make me feel uneasy. It made me feel unsettled because it was the (person's profession) whom I worked for."
A second member of staff at the office said she was worried people would believe the allegation.
She added: "Things could escalate and things could have been thrown at the window."
Paul Ricketts, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said police were called to the office three days later and arrested Sparrow carrying a similar placard.
Sparrow, representing himself, admitted walking around with placards for 35 days.
He claimed it was duty to expose what he alleged had happened.
Judge Parsons said that Sparrow genuinely believed his claims.
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But the judge said his actions were "not reasonable" and there were other actions he could have taken.
The judge said his sign had caused the two women "alarm or distress".


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My hands shook as he slipped the ring on my finger. I was most certainly taken by surprise! We celebrated with a champagne toast, and the final surprise was that the suite was ours for the night! He had even packed my overnight bag. Room service breakfast in the morning capped off our engagement experience. We then headed home to celebrate for a family Thanksgiving. We sure had a lot to be thankful for!


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Oct. 13, 2012 @ 12:00 AM
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Basically a Tea HousePosted on 08 / 30 / 2008
After a very steep ascent to the top of the hill the promise of a drink and a bit of cake is very welcoming. Not much on offer here except tea coffee, cold drinks and some lovely vegan cakes. Not all cakes are vegan. It's not a bad place at all, with lovely gardens and views.
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Nice photo on publicity shot. He doesn't look anything like this now. Great band with talented musicians. Some songs were a bit schmaltzy. Would like to see this band do some funk and jazz.
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Attendance: about 1100 The Show: When Steve Earle & the Dukes are in full cry, folk and rock collide in the best possible way. Folk and rock collided in the best possible way on Sunday night in the Majestic Theatre. In what proved to be something of a triumphant homecoming, San Antonio-raised singing songwriter Earle […] [Read More]
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Several San Antonio musicians are in the hunt for Grammy Awards. The 52nd annual Grammy Awards happen January 31, 2010. Country music superstar George Strait is nominated in three categories, including best country album for "Twang." Strait was also recognized in the best male country vocal performance category for "Living For the Night" and for […] [Read More]


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Catalogue number: MSSWALL4
Letter from Wallace to Lord Walden commenting on the latter's catalogue of the birds of Celebes (Sulawesi), dated August 1872.
Wallace wrote this letter to the ornithologist and president of the Zoological Society of London, Lord Walden (previously known as Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale). Walden had produced a catalogue of the birds of Celebes (now Sulawesi) showing their geographical distribution. Since this was an area of Wallace's expertise, he made comments on the catalogue. Wallace suggests an alternative and clearer way of allocating birds to a region.
Wallace originally noticed a separation of species in the region and lent his name to the boundary that separates the zoogeographical regions of Asia and Australasia: the Wallace Line. This imaginary line runs through the Malay Archipelago, between Borneo and Celebes (now Sulawesi), and between Bali in the west and Lombok in the east. West of the line are Asian-related species; to the east are Australian-related species.
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Ritonavir is classified as Food and Drug Administration Pregnancy Category B.
Animal Carcinogenicity StudiesRitonavir was neither mutagenic nor clastogenic in a series of in vitro and animal in vivo screening tests. Carcinogenicity studies in mice and rats have been completed. In male mice, a dose-dependent increase in adenomas of the liver and combined adenomas and carcinomas of the liver was observed at levels of 50, 100, or 200 mg/kg/day; based on area under the curve, exposure in male mice at the highest dose was approximately 0.3-fold that in male humans at the recommended therapeutic dose. No carcinogenic effects were observed in female mice with exposures 0.6-fold that of female humans at the recommended therapeutic dose. No carcinogenic effects were observed in rats at exposures up to 6% of recommended therapeutic human exposure.
Reproduction/FertilityNo effect of ritonavir has been seen on reproductive performance or fertility in rats at drug exposures 40% (male) and 60% (female) of that achieved with human therapeutic dosing; higher doses were not feasible because of hepatic toxicity in the rodents.
Teratogenicity/Developmental ToxicityNo ritonavir-related teratogenicity has been observed in rats or rabbits. Developmental toxicity, including early resorptions, decreased body weight, ossification delays, and developmental variations such as wavy ribs and enlarged fontanelles, was observed in rats; however, these effects occurred only at maternally toxic dosages (exposure equivalent to 30% of human therapeutic exposure). In addition, a slight increase in cryptorchidism was also noted in rats at exposures equivalent to 22% of the human therapeutic dose. In rabbits, developmental toxicity (resorptions, decreased litter size, and decreased fetal weight) was observed only at maternally toxic doses (1.8 times human therapeutic exposure based on body surface area).
Placental and Breast Milk TransferTransplacental passage of ritonavir has been observed in rats with fetal tissue-to-maternal-serum ratios >1.0 at 24 hours post-dose in mid- and late-gestation fetuses. In a human placental perfusion model, the clearance index of ritonavir was very low, with little accumulation in the fetal compartment and no accumulation in placental tissue.2 In a Phase I study of pregnant women and their infants (PACTG 354, see below), transplacental passage of ritonavir was minimal.3 In addition, in a study of cord blood samples from six women treated with ritonavir during pregnancy, the cord blood concentration was less than the assay limit of detection in 83% and was only 0.38 µg/mL in the remaining woman.4 In contrast, in a study of plasma and hair drug concentration in 51 mother-infant pairs in Uganda receiving ritonavir-boosted-lopinavir-based therapy during pregnancy and breastfeeding, infant plasma levels at delivery and hair levels at age 12 weeks suggested in utero transfer of ritonavir: 2% of infants had detectable plasma ritonavir concentrations at birth and mean infant-to-maternal-hair concentrations at 12 weeks postpartum was 0.47 for ritonavir.5 However, transfer during breastfeeding was not observed, with no infant having detectable ritonavir plasma levels at 12 weeks.
Human Studies in PregnancyA Phase I/II safety and pharmacokinetic study (PACTG 354) of ritonavir (500 or 600 mg twice daily) in combination with zidovudine and lamivudine in pregnant HIV-infected women and their infants showed lower levels of ritonavir during pregnancy than postpartum.3 Ritonavir concentrations are also reduced during pregnancy versus postpartum when the drug is used at a low dose (100 mg) to boost the concentrations of other protease inhibitors.6,7