Academic Journal
Competition between Firms that Bundle Information Goods
| العنوان: | Competition between Firms that Bundle Information Goods |
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| المؤلفون: | Scott A. Fay |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://www.econ.lsa.umich.edu/~scottfay/bundle.ps. |
| بيانات النشر: | Unpublished |
| سنة النشر: | 1999 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | Information goods, such as journal articles, require substantial investment. But once the original content has been created, it is very inexpensive to produce additional copies. Recent technological advances in computing and digital communication have made possible even lower duplication and distribution expenses through electronic delivery. This cost structure poses a difficulty. Charging per-unit prices is inefficient since it restricts individuals from reading articles that can be cheaply replicated. However, if prices are lowered to the incremental cost of producing additional copies, then firms will not recover their substantial first-copy costs and thus will not have an incentive to invest in producing original content. Bundling -- selling a multitude of information goods for a single price --- may be desirable in such a market. Once the bundle has been bought, individuals pay no extra fee for each item consumed and thus read all the content that they find valuable. Y. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/postscript |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.27.8277; http://www.econ.lsa.umich.edu/~scottfay/bundle.ps |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.27.8277 http://www.econ.lsa.umich.edu/~scottfay/bundle.ps |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B3000D84 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |