The impact of readability on the usefulness of online product reviews: A case study on an online bookstore

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5288 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 423-432

  Korfiatis, Nikolaos ^a   Rodríguez, Daniel ^a   Sicilia, Miguel Angel ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Online services; Readbility tests

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PURCHASING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CASE STUDIES; ONLINE BOOKSTORES; ONLINE MARKETPLACES; ONLINE PRODUCTS; ONLINE SERVICES; READBILITY TESTS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 56649095682     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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