Title
Fixed fee versus unit pricing for information goods: competition, equilibria, and price wars
Abstract
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
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
Peter C. Fishburn1740136.75
Andrew M. Odlyzko21286413.71
Ryan C. Siders33010.04