For the big six conglomerates, this represents their future much more than e-books do.
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Although many Canadians would find it hard to believe, the Big Six banks' dominance is being eroded.
The regulator said at the time it wanted to "break the grip" of the big six energy firms.
The big six sounds great and has an ornery vitality that makes the car really fun to drive.
Still, Gao thinks his closest rivals are Leanpub, Amazon.com itself, and ultimately the Big Six book publishers.
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The big six can then attract new customers with competitive prices that smaller ones find hard to match.
In the first nine months of 2010, the big six banks cleared more than thirty-five billion dollars in profits.
Financial services dominate the Canadian cadre with 16 banks (including five of the Big Six), insurers and diversified financial firms.
The only holdout was Random House, the largest of the big six.
Bilbary has agreements in place with most of the big six publishers.
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The actions of the big six publishers tell a different story, however.
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It is thought to be the first time that one of the big six energy firms has been prosecuted for using dishonest sales techniques.
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The table above reporting results of the big six Japanese banking groups for the period April-December 2010 is from the February 8, 2011 Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
And the playoff system only marginally adds choice because allowing a team from outside the big six conferences does not change the balance of power and resources.
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Of the big six categories, best actor, best actress, best supporting actress, best supporting actor, best director and best film, Johnson voted correctly on all except best director.
It's going to go straight into a hole in the ground, because the hard plastics that make up things like the big six pint milk bottles have some value.
As shipments of the renamed Apple TV headed to stores on Mar. 21, Jobs faced an ugly reality: The new box would debut with content from only two of the Big Six.
The Guardian reported that investigations were taking place into "some of the big six" energy providers, but the brief statements released by both the FSA and Ofgem did not identify any companies.
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Facts are murky and disputed, but by the end of 2009, Apple and five of the Big Six publishers (Random House being the outlier) had agreed to new business terms that overthrew the traditional wholesale model.
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The big six used to be a big five America's Gulfstream, Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft, Bombardier of Canada and Dassault of France until Embraer of Brazil decided ten years ago to branch out from making jets for regional airlines.
Energy UK - which represents the big six firms - said Britain had one of the most competitive energy markets in the world, with the cheapest gas and the fourth cheapest electricity of all major European countries.
The smaller carriers that do have a significant percentage of hub-and-spoke routes, such as Mesa Air Group and SkyWest, do so as contract carriers for the Big Six: AMR, Delta Air Lines , UAL, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines and U.S. Airways.
Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, Britain's big new financial watchdog, added his voice to criticism of the proposed mergers between accountancy firms that will reduce the world's Big Six to the Big Four.
Of the other Big Six, American, Continental, Delta and NorthWest were all in the red for the last three months' reported figures.
Macmillan is the smallest of the big-six publishers, which produce sixty per cent of all books sold in the U.S. Like its peers, Macmillan relies heavily on Amazon, which sells about fourteen per cent of its trade books and the vast majority of its e-books.
She also accused the government of failing to tackle the "big six" energy companies and said its advice to consumers to "shop around" for the cheapest deals as a way to combat rising prices was not enough.
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In the process, the six big firms will become four or fewer.
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Only EDF of the big-six has so far held off from announcing higher charges.
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The main beneficiaries were the six big processing plants, two of which are American owned.
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