Managing piracy: Pricing and sampling strategies for digital experience goods in vertically segmented markets

Information Systems Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 400-417

  Chellappa, Ramnath K ^a   Shivendu, Shivendu ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital products; Experience goods; Piracy; Pricing; Sampling; Vertical segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; CRIME; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; SAMPLING;

DIGITAL PRODUCTS; EXPERIENCE GOODS; PIRACY; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; PRODUCT SAMPLINGS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; TWO STAGE MODEL; VERTICAL SEGMENTATIONS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 29444441039     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1050.0069     Document Type: Article

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