{"id":11777,"date":"2012-09-20T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2012-09-20T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:10:41","slug":"agency-model-dismantling-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11777","title":{"rendered":"Agency Model dismantling in Europe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Europe ditches Agency Model.\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/eu-begins-to-dismantle-agency-pricing-on-ebooks\/\" target=\"_self\">GoodeReader<\/a><\/strong> reports on a story from overseas that says the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> is dissolving the <strong>Agency Model <\/strong>of pricing instituted some years ago by <strong>Apple<\/strong>, <strong>HarperCollins<\/strong>, <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/strong>, <strong>Macmillan and Hachette Livre<\/strong> because it was a &#8220;concerted practice&#8221; to raise eBook prices and stop lower prices from being available across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>This is similar to the <strong>US Department of Justice&#8217;s <\/strong>suit against <strong>Apple <\/strong>and co-conspirators, except in the <strong>European <\/strong>case, <strong>Apple <\/strong>seems to be complying with the dismantling initiative, something they&#8217;re fighting stateside.<\/p>\n<p>With the <strong>Agency Model<\/strong> going into remission this forces publishers to offer their titles to booksellers with a starting price attached. The booksellers are then free to discount them as they wish or as the market demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader reports on a story from overseas that says the European Commission is dissolving the Agency Model of pricing instituted some years ago by Apple, HarperCollins, Simon &amp; Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette Livre because it was a &#8220;concerted practice&#8221; to raise eBook prices and stop lower prices from being available across Europe. This is similar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11777\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11786,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}