Pricing of content services - an empirical investigation of Music as a Service

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1232-1241

  Doerr, Jonathan ^a   Benlian, Alexander ^a   Vetter, Johannes ^a   Hess, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business model; Content as; Digital distribution; Music as; Music streaming; Pricing; Service; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION; MUSIC STREAMING; SERVICE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84870446561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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