The Economics of Online Journalism

The Handbook of Global Online Journalism

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 231-250

  van der Wurff, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actual degree of non excludability, varying with the technical; Bundling content for dual product markets; Digital and online technologies, opportunities for news providers; Economics of online journalism; Economics, news industry's search for a viable business model; High first copy costs, news providers and economies of scale; Modern news industry and vertical disintegration, complex news industry; Peculiarities of news as economic product

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888717470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118313978.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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