Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hu, Yu Jeffrey; Smith, Michael D. - 2014
niche products that can be found on the Internet at retailers like Amazon.com. In this paper we analyze how the shape of … Amazon’s sales distribution curve has changed from 2000 to 2008, and how this impacts the resulting consumer surplus gains … broad sample of books sold through Amazon.com and compare it to similar data we gathered in 2000. We then develop a new …