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...

Third-degree price-discrimination strategies are limited, however. Beyond age and some forms of group membership, there are few...

At a high level, the answer to these questions is the default Economics 101 answer: Firms want to maximize their profit. But this goal is...

The “gold standard” for establishing causation is a randomized experiment in which the researcher can vary the independent variable...

“When two hunters go after the same prey, they usually end up shooting each other in the back. And we don’t want to shoot each other in...

John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly chronicles the musical evolution of one of the most influential solo artists of his generation. Featuring...

Consider the challenges of promoting a new song on radio. By the 1950s, radio had become one of the major channels available to record...

For most of the twentieth century, the basic structure of the music industry remained the same. A group of businesses that had arisen...

That kind of domination led to big profits – but also a vulnerability to the Next Big Thing, which arrived in the 1950s in the form of...

In 1889, both Edison and a new jukebox producer called the Columbia Phonograph Company began to sell music recorded on wax cylinders, and...

Don’t bet your future on one roll of the dice/ Better remember lightning never strikes twice Huey Lewis and the News, “Back in Time” Not...

In a few years we’ll have artificial intelligence that can accomplish professional human tasks. There is nothing we can do to stop this....

This is an issue that affects us all. If you are a leader in the motion-picture industry, the music industry, or the publishing industry,...

Perhaps this all means that Netflix will be the “winner” in digital motion-picture delivery. But perhaps not. Netflix, after all, faces...

However, in order for price discrimination to work effectively, you must be able to control the availability, quality, and usability of...

The decision to bypass a pilot episode wasn’t the only difference between Netflix’s approach and that of the “suits.” Instead of...

For the creative industries – music, film, and publishing – these are the best of times and the worst of times. New technologies have...

Searching For Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul,...