Bundling and competition on the internet

Marketing Science

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-82

  Bakos, Yannis ^a   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundling; Competition; Digital goods; Information goods; Internet; Pricing; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340417     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.19.1.63.15182     Document Type: Article

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