The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading … community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to … compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model the direct competition in the e-book platform market through a …

by analysing digital platform initiatives from different points of view. The overall research question tackled in this … paper is to determine critical characteristics that can impact the success of the digital, multi-sided platform business … then applied on different existing platform solutions, in a broad range of application domains, to identify specific design …