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

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 58 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 13-24

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

BUSINESS MODELS; CONTENT AS A SERVICE; DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION; MUSIC AS A SERVICE; MUSIC STREAMING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84875516257     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15141-5_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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