Who benefit from agency model: A strategic analysis of pricing models in distribution channels of physical books and e-books
Who benefit from agency model: A strategic analysis of pricing models in distribution channels of physical books and e-books
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谁从代理模式中受益:实体书和电子书分销渠道定价模式的战略分析
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10.1016/j.ejor.2017.07.002
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发表时间:
2018-02
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Huang Jiazhou
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作者:
Lu Qihui;Shi Victor;Huang Jiazhou
We model a supply chain consisting of an author, a publisher, a physical bookstore (p-bookstore), and an electronic bookstore (e-bookstore). We employ game theory to examine and compare two types of pricing models of electronic books (e-books): wholesale model and agency model. Furthermore, we consider decentralized and horizontally centralized channels. The p-bookstore and e-bookstore are independent in the former but centralized in the latter. We adopt a simplified linear demand model to study when the publisher and the e-bookstore both benefit from the agency model. We find that a Pareto zone where both the publisher and e-bookstore benefit from the agency model always exists in the decentralized channels. In the agency model, the benefit from e-book sales may be more than the loss in physical book (p-book) sales. By contrast, a Pareto zone exists in the horizontally centralized channels if the wholesale price of p-books is not excessively low and the price elasticity is not extremely large. To check the robustness of our results, we relax model assumptions and conduct numerical studies in the Pareto zone to investigate how various parameters, such as authors royalty rate, affect profit improvement and readers welfare. We show that the publisher and bookstore have great potentials for profit improvement in the Pareto zone. Significant improvement is also observed in readers welfare.
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