{"id":15989,"date":"2015-04-09T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2015-04-09T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:33:21","slug":"harpercollins-to-push-for-agency-model-and-blatentmarket-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15989","title":{"rendered":"HarperCollins to push for Agency Model and blatentmarket manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a\u00a0<a title=\"HarperCollins to gouge readers again\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/galleycat\/harpercollins-to-return-to-agency-ebook-pricing-model\/101820\"><strong>GalleyCat<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0post, we should get ready to be\u00a0gouged again as <strong>HarperCollins&#8217; contract talks with Amazon<\/strong> hint that the publisher is planning a\u00a0return to the <strong>Agency Pricing model<\/strong>\u00a0for eBooks (like many price-fixing publishers have already done) where they set their own prices regardless of what the retailer, consumer or market will bear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Agency Model<\/strong>\u00a0forces the price of eBooks as high or higher than the &#8220;paper&#8221; book equivalents. This has the effect of filling publishers&#8217; pockets with money, and cooling down the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong>\u00a0where the keen and tech-savvy public does not buy the corporate sob story about eBooks costing as much to publish as hard covers.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part of that is readers will again suffer the dirty end of the <strong>Agency Model<\/strong>\u00a0stick.<\/p>\n<p>One promising note. The <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> started out this way. As the big publishers undercut and damaged the eBook sales of their own stables of writers, Indie authors priced their wares to sell and sell they did. Readers got realistic\u00a0prices and a long list of new authors that had been kept out by the corporate gatekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the <strong>Agency Model<\/strong>\u00a0is good for the eBook pirates too since agency model pricing makes stealing eBooks well worth the effort. So get ready for those complaints again!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re going back to square one. The\u00a0Indies should prep for\u00a0a bump in sales!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a\u00a0GalleyCat\u00a0post, we should get ready to be\u00a0gouged again as HarperCollins&#8217; contract talks with Amazon hint that the publisher is planning a\u00a0return to the Agency Pricing model\u00a0for eBooks (like many price-fixing publishers have already done) where they set their own prices regardless of what the retailer, consumer or market will bear. The Agency Model\u00a0forces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15989\">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":[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\/15989"}],"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=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}