This paper uses phonebook records of music retailers in the United States for the years 1998 and 2002 to examine how … Internet use, file sharing, and online sales of records have affected the entry and exit of brick and mortar music specialty … retailers. By merging music store information with data on Internet activity and broadband connectedness at the Metropolitan …

Pay-to-play online music distribution, digital rights management (DRM) systems and hard-drive-based digital music … Time Warner and AOL1 on the condition that AOL break its tie with Bertelsmann and its music catalogue. That remedy was … intended to eliminate the risk, identified by the Commission, that the merged company would dominate the online music …

investigate one type of digital experience good - music - whose market environment includes the very real presence of online …

digital technology has made music an infinitely durable product, this article analyses the market of online music. Whereas the … in a monopoly situation, selling the music is the best strategy, as it creates a loop of self-reinforcing switching costs … between the durable (music) and the non-durable (iPod, etc.) complement. Finally, this article assesses, theoretically and …

, iTunes, SoundCloud, Apple Music, and YouTube. Using a directed approach to qualitative content analysis, we coded lyrics … underscores the global influence of musicians whose songs are easily accessible on diverse music platforms in trivializing the …