The development of Internet brought in revolutions in pricing models in the digital music industry. Currently, there are three common schemes to sell digital music: ownership, subscription and mixed pricing models. Our paper aims to explore and compare the three pricing models. Through a...

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...

We present a framework to evaluate the impact of digital music distribution. We set up a representative model that enables the comparative static analysis. We then interpret two empirical observations about the music industry, the sales decline and the price constancy, and fit the model to these...

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...

Zentrale Besonderheiten von PWYW Angeboten im Internet -- Entwicklung eines Modells zur Analyse der freiwilligen Zahlungsbereitschaft -- Einfluss externer und individueller Charakteristika auf die Zahlungsbereitschaft.