Fee or Free: When Should Firms Charge for Online Content?

Pricing Online Content: Fee or Free?*

Many online content providers aim to compensate for a loss in advertising revenues by charging consumers for access to online content. However, such a choice is not straightforward, because subscription fees typically deter customers, further reducing advertising revenues. In this research, we empirically examine and quantify a content provider’s trade-off between advertising and subscription r...

Price Competition in the Presence of a Web Aggregator∗

In this paper we examine the impact of a web aggregator on firms and consumers in a horizontally differentiated market. When a firm pays a fee to be listed on the aggregator’s website, its location and price become observable to e-users (consumers who visit the website). We consider two settings, depending on the possibility for online firms to offer discounts to e-users. In equilibrium, not al...

Moving from Free to Fee: How Online Firms Market to Successfully Change their Business Model

A strategic analysis of internet contents market in electronic commerce

Many online content providers tend to charge their services since they are confronted with difficulties to attain revenue from the online advertising. This paper shows why they charge their services as the online market becomes grow and explore the strategies when the conventional offline contents firms enter the online contents market. And we also discuss some implications related to pricing s...

Predatory publishing: what authors, reviewers, and editors need to know.

The expansion of the Internet and the increasing pressure to provide new scientific content to the public as quickly as possible have led to rapid changes in the publishing industry. Recently, new publishing models have arisen, such as open access (content available to readers at no charge), hybrid (some combination of print and online content delivery), and early online access to print journal...