Chapter 21 The Economics of Books

Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 721-761

  Canoy, Marcel ^a   van Ours, Jan C ^b   van der Ploeg, Frederick ^c  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

authors; books; diversity; Internet; libraries; monopolistic competition; publishers; retail price maintenance; subsidies

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149168809     PISSN: 15740676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0676(06)01021-0     Document Type: Review

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