Digital technology has allowed inventors to circumvent traditional intermediaries and directly reach consumers, which may affect licensing outcomes and efficiency in the market for ideas. We study these impacts theoretically and empirically in the book publishing industry, where the number of...

This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of...

The paper introduces a specification of the demand side which allows RPM to have different effects on prices and on service, which may increase or decrease due to RPM. A feature of the model which deviates from those found in the literature is due to the introduction of a class of consumers who...

What is the impact of the increasing dominance of conventional firms in e-commerce? We use a simple model to show that retailers who only sell through Internet have lower on-line prices than retailers who also sell through conventional stores. This proposition is firmly supported by our...

Der Handel mit antiquarischen Büchern hat durch das Internet - zumindest aus Kundensicht - eine Umwälzung erfahren wie kaum eine andere Branche. In einer ersten empirischen Untersuchung der Preiswirkungen eines digitalen Marktplatzes für antiquarische Bücher konnte nicht festgestellt werden,...

Which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments? In a step towards answering this question, this paper estimates the impacts of several competitive strategies on the values of the well-known Internet retailer Amazon.com and three of its early competitors, BarnesandNoble.com, CDNOW,...

We empirically analyze the role of e-Commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers in discovering new bestsellers in the book market, using the German market as an example. Using an AR(1)-Process, we find that when a title becomes a bestseller sales increase in e-Commerce and decrease in...

2002 blieb auch der Buchmarkt von der Konjunkturschwäche der deutschen Wirtschaft nicht verschont und verzeichnete leichte Umsatzeinbußen. Dieser unbefriedigende Geschäftsverlauf setzte sich im ersten Halbjahr 2003 mit sinkenden Umsätzen fort. Ab September belebte sich aber die Nachfrage, so...