From their perspective, it makes more sense to sell own-branded products, not simply because they have more control over setting the price (and the margin), but also because it's much easier to avoid price comparisons with their rivals.
But that system began to change when the publishers, possibly with the help of Apple, whose popular iPad also serves as an e-book reader, took greater control over setting prices, according to European officials.
The frustration has been amplified because North Korea's announcement of a nuclear test on Feb. 12, its third, coincided with South Korea's turn as president of the Security Council under a monthly rotation system, giving South Korea a powerful measure of control over setting its priorities.
It says all local authorities should have full control over setting council tax bills - with the power to introduce new bands - and full control over the setting of business rates.
Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.
Extending phylogenetic approaches previously developed to estimate the virus control over set-point viral load in HIV-1 infections, we simulate inheritance of a binary trait along a phylogenetic tree, use this data to quantify how infection outcomes cluster and ascertain the effect of virus genotype on these.
Future research should work toward developing a detailed mechanism of BR control over sets of genes that are involved in cell division.
Life's shapelessness is a challenge: there is not much control over cast, set or circumstance.
She ordered OPTA to cut the fees in half, citing the European Telecoms Framework that took effect in May 2011, which supposedly gave Brussels more control over fees set by national regulators.
This dissatisfaction, detected even in professionals in training, has been attributed to the lack of fulfilment of expectations and to a lack of control over the setting [ 26].
His research, which initially had emphasized careful control over the "set and setting" of the psychedelic experience, became increasingly undisciplined and unstructured.
