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Lertwachara, Kaveepan

Topic Weight Topic Terms
0.286 piracy goods digital property intellectual rights protection presence legal consumption music consumers enforcement publisher pirate
0.147 consumer consumers model optimal welfare price market pricing equilibrium surplus different higher results strategy quality
0.118 online users active paper using increasingly informational user data internet overall little various understanding empirical

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Bhattacharjee, Sudip 1 Gopal, Ram D. 1 Marsden, James R. 1
digital experience goods 1 license 1 music 1 online channels 1
piracy 1 sampling 1 search 1

Articles (1)

Consumer Search and Retailer Strategies in the Presence of Online Music Sharing. (Journal of Management Information Systems, 2006)
Authors: Abstract:
    Advances in online technologies and bandwidth availability have opened new vistas for online distribution of digital goods, but potential benefits for consumers are juxtaposed against challenges for retailers. Here, we investigate one type of digital experience good--music--whose market environment includes the very real presence of online piracy. Although arguments abound for and against online distribution of such digital goods, little research exists in this area. We develop a model of consumer search for such an experience good, and study different emerging market environments for retailers, where consumers can pirate music online. Retailer cost to publishers is modeled using a variety of licensing schemas. Survey results, together with data from online sharing networks, are utilized to validate a key assumption. Finally, computational analysis is used to develop insights that cannot be obtained analytically. Our results indicate that decreasing piracy is not necessarily equivalent to increasing profit, and online selling strategies can provide additional profits for a traditional retailer even in the presence of piracy. We show that leading strategies for business in such goods should include pricing options, provision of efficient search tools, and new licensing structures.