With reduced costs of production and distribution, access to artistic endeavors has never been higher.
As the costs of production in stagnant sectors rise, firms are forced to raise prices.
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You could almost say the same for gold and oil, which reflect demand dynamics rather than embedded costs of production.
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More sales equal larger economies of scale, which lowers per-unit costs of production for businesses and cuts prices for consumers.
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The rush was on to take advantage of this price arbitrage that provided almost monopolistic prices, and only marginal costs of production.
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Does this apply only to software, with very low costs of production?
Demetrio Gonzales, a banana grower from Panama, says his community was barely covering the costs of production before the introduction of fair trade.
Many economists laud the market for its efficiency properties as free markets generally direct resources to their highest-valued ends while minimizing costs of production.
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Those restrictions raise the costs of production for the downstream firms, weakening their capacity to compete with foreign producers in the United States and abroad.
Instead, he expects to see studios reevaluating the costs of production.
If the yuan rises, they will stay in China and simply pass on the higher costs of production to their U.S. customers because they must stay there.
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Describing the increase as a "positive" move, Mr Downes said he still faced a tough winter, with costs of production expected to be 32 pence per litre.
When businessmen complained about an import-duty surcharge of 8%, which was supposed to help them but instead pushed up their costs of production, he halved the surcharge.
Aside from his own personal exuberance over the deal, he points to the strength of the proposed combined entity as a completely non-hedged producer with industry-leading low costs of production.
There continues to be rapid growth of white-box or utility and basic tablets as well, given the low costs of production attained using components from Chinese chip producers Allwinner and Rockchip.
Apart from fending off interlopers from the Internet, Japanese publishers see e-books as a way of slashing the costs of production and distribution, which currently account for more than 75% of the total.
Yuan appreciation not only bolsters the buying power of Chinese consumers, but it makes Chinese-based producers and assemblers more competitive because the relative prices of their imported inputs fall, reducing their costs of production.
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The study ran numerous scenarios, looking at costs of production and world prices, and found that there were net benefits to the US economy under all export scenarios, even where exports were modeled as unlimited.
But for any car maker, the costs of the production and transportation of hydrogen are huge.
Mr. Hurd also brings a track record of squeezing costs out of computer production.
Such suspects could include those whose energy costs are large portion of production costs: semiconductors, plastics, and LCD televisions.
The low costs of software production mean that there are vastly more firms producing software than produce any other category of patentable invention.
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Each technology discussion includes technical and market status, costs of energy production, cost trends, policy environment, future projections, and analysis of prospects and hurdles to expansion.
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In such trend, Fujifilm has strived to reduce the costs of the production process for its existing negative films and positive films and continued to supply such films.
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The ability to keep on taking costs out of the production of the basic cells themselves.
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The fixed costs of AAA game production will be too great to support the diminished market.
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California has also passed cap-and-trade legislation that adds substantially to the costs of conventional energy production and refining.
As previously reported on this blog, low costs production of PV panels from Chinese producers helped drive down prices over 24 percent over the last year.
The costs of development and production of fossil fuel energy have been underwritten with our tax dollars to the benefit of a few traditional energy companies.
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Lady Gaga had similar box office figures to Elton John - but the costs of her elaborate production, from back-up dancers to elaborate costumes and hydraulic puppets, ate into her profits significantly.
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