Many internet activists and leaders of technology businesses disagreed. Sure, a lot of people around the world were now watching movies...

The world’s first artist centric payment system for music streaming was launched on Deezer in October 2023. This innovative system marks...

You’ll never stop [piracy]. So what you have to do is compete with it. – Steve Jobs We know piracy won’t go away altogether, and we won’t...

In 2000, when we conducted our original research into how consumers gained value from online markets, our focus wasn’t on the shape of...

Winner of Best Documentary at the 2019 Toronto Shorts International Film Festival and directed by Chasson Gracie. (Learn more:...

However, most studies of the sort described previously have been conducted in artificial settings where consumers have very little...

If consumers derive an enormous amount of value from being able to find obscure products that match their tastes, as we have found that...

Adapting Hausman and Leonard’s model to our setting, we found that the economic value consumers gained from being able to access obscure...

In their 1995 book The Winner-Take-All Society, Robert Frank and Phillip Cook argue that many markets, including those for entertainment,...

Very few entities in this world can afford to spend $200 million on a movie. That is our competitive advantage -       Alan Horn,...

The Journey Begins Joshua Yarbrough, a talented Blues musician from Tulsa, Oklahoma, embarks on a remarkable journey. His passion for...

Why did Britannica have such difficulty responding to the changes in the market for encyclopedias? Britannica was, after all, the...

Britannica did recognize the potential value of an electronic encyclopedia, however – and so did its competitors. Grolier was first out...

Much of Britannica’s success in the decades leading up to 1990 had to do with the effectiveness of its sales team. Britannica...

Singer and his colleagues didn’t have any more success winning hearts and minds when it came to demonstrating their technology. At a demo...

Title: The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash Review: Thom Zimny’s documentary, ‘The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash,’ offers a deeply...

“Meteorologists see perfection in strange things, and the meshing of three completely independent weather systems to form a hundred-year...

This may explain why customers didn’t discover some movies before the pay-cable window, but it doesn’t explain what changed during the...

Enabling Information Discovery In early 2010, we observed how this kind of complimentary across release windows works while we were...

Of course book publishers aren’t the only sellers of information goods who rely on second-degree price-discrimination strategies. The...