Title | ||
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Fixed fee versus unit pricing for information goods: competition, equilibria, and price wars |
Abstract | ||
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Information goods have negligible marginal costs, and this will create possibilities for noveldistribution and pricing methods. The main concern of this paper is with pricing of goods thatare likely to be consumed in large quantities by individuals. For example, will software continueto be sold at a fixed price for each unit, or will it be paid for on the basis of usage? There issubstantial evidence both from observing marketplace evolution and from surveys that customersoverwhelmingly... |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1997 | 10.5210/fm.v2i7.535 | First Monday |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
information good | Pricing schedule,Economics,Rational pricing,Microeconomics,Psychological pricing,Fixed price,Marginal cost,Variable pricing,Limit price,Industrial organization,Word processing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
2 | 7 | 29 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
8.82 | 1 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Peter C. Fishburn | 1 | 740 | 136.75 |
Andrew M. Odlyzko | 2 | 1286 | 413.71 |
Ryan C. Siders | 3 | 30 | 10.04 |