Cooperative Pricing In Digital Value Chains – The Case Of Online Music

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Peter Buxmann
Jochen Strube
Gerrit Pohl

Abstract: 

In this paper we examine alternative pricing models for digital music from the perspective of the entire music value chain. By analyzing empirical data on the willingness to pay, we show that the turnover from music downloads could be increased by lower prices. However, such a low price strategy can only be realized if the actors of the value chain, i.e. artists, labels, collecting societies, service providers, and online shops act as cooperation partners. We develop a model to find profit-maximizing prices and show how to split up the resulting increasing revenues between the partners of the value chain to assure Pareto-efficient solutions.

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February, 2007

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