Economía de los ebooks
Keywords:
ebook, Digital lecture, Pricing options, Cannibalization, Free, Pirate, Online content
Abstract
This paper studies the main economic issues related to e-books. It first describes how new technologies affect the publishing sector as compared to their effect on other content industries. Thereafter it considers optimum price levels for e-books and the illicit book downloads. Final remarks are related to the free distribution of e-books, it comes to digital books it that they will cannibalize print sales and the broadening of book-markets that provide e-books.Downloads
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2010-07-06
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Larrañaga Rubio J. (2010). Economía de los ebooks. Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información, 33, 124-141. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/DCIN/article/view/DCIN1010110124A
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