denet

1. (transitive, publishing) To reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.Examples: "What prompted the demise of the agreement was the action of a number of publishers who 'denetted' the price of their books."; "Recent changes in the retail situation now allow denetting of a book six months after publication rather than after a year."; "Yet the NBA is still in place, the PA has moved to prevent publishers from supplying BCA's club shops, and the threat from groups such as Costco has diminished. Even Hodder Headline's denetting initiative has not led to the kind of price war among booksellers that many feared."transitive