We address the problem of metadata management in the context of future Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) systems, and propose a classification of existing musical editorial systems in two categories: the isolationists and the universalists. Universalists propose shared information at the expense of consensuality, while isolationist approaches allow individual parameterization at the expense o...

Free mentality, a strong belief that everything online should be free, has been ironed into people’s minds. This concept also significantly affects the development of e-commerce. However, despite the importance of this “free mentality” concept, a lack of systematic investigations inhibits our understanding of this issue. Based on the decomposed theory of planned behavior, this study focuses on ...

We describe a modeling exercise, conducted in conjunction with the online music retailer CDNOW, where the goal was to develop a simple stochastic model of buyer behavior capable of generating a medium-term forecast of aggregate CD purchasing by a cohort of new customers. Weekly sales are modeled using a finite mixture of beta-geometric distributions with a separate time-varying component to cap...

Music records are largely a byproduct of collaborative efforts. Understanding how musicians collaborate to create records provides a step to understand the social production of music. This work leverages recent methods from trajectory mining to investigate how musicians have collaborated over time to record albums. Our case study analyzes data from the Discogs.com database from the Jazz domain....

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Convincing a customer is always considered as a challenging task in every business. But when it comes to online business, this task becomes even more difficult. Online retailers try everything possible to gain the trust of the customer. One of the solutions is to provide an area for existing users to leave their comments. This service can effectively develop the trust of the customer however no...

This study examines how gamification mechanics could be used in online retailers' loyalty programs. In other words, this article attempts to create a conceptual model for the relationship between gamification mechanics and customer loyalty elements. We used a field study to conduct our research. In order to validate the survey, 450 customers from one of the greatest online stores in Iran were q...

Perceptions regarding an online store, developed after a brief study of the website, can significantly influence somebody’s attitude towards purchasing at that store. These perceptions are collectively characterised as an ‘‘online store image.’’ Our research developed reliable and valid measures for the components of an online store image, and examined the relationships of these components to a...

This study is one of the few empirical works addressing the impact of offline and online store impressions on consumer online purchase intentions. Building upon the literature on store image and consumer online purchasing, we propose positive effects of online store image and suggest mixed influences of offline store image perceptions. Drawing on a sample of 630 customers of one of the largest ...