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A Flurry Of Sales, Carol Tenopir
A Flurry Of Sales, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Last year ended with a flurry of major sales in the information industry. Just as 2006 holiday shopping started, primary and secondary publishers announced acquisitions, mergers, and sales opportunities.
Bundling Information Goods: The Case Of E-Journals, Yong Tan
Bundling Information Goods: The Case Of E-Journals, Yong Tan
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
With the development of the Internet, e-business has become popular. Increasingly, e-journals are being sold via the Internet. E- journals have two main characteristics: one is the low marginal cost associated with access; the other is the large number of items. For the commercially motivated seller, the issue of bundling a large number of low marginal cost items so as to maximize profits needs to be dealt with. In this thesis, a solution by way of an intermediate bundle is proposed. It is found that the profit obtained under the proposed procedure is 4% to 5% higher than that under …