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Article: The impact of e-book distribution on print sales: Analysis of a natural experiment

TitleThe impact of e-book distribution on print sales: Analysis of a natural experiment
Authors
Chen, HHu, YJSmith, MD
KeywordsPublishing industry
Natural experiment
Digital distribution
Channel
Issue Date2019
Citation
Management Science, 2019, v. 65, n. 1, p. 19-31 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2940
AbstractDigital distribution introduces many new strategic questions for the creative industries-notably, how the use of new digital channels will impact sales in established channels.We analyze this question in the context of e-book and hardcover sales by exploiting a natural experiment that exogenously delayed the release of a publisher's new Kindle e-books in April and May 2010. Using new books released simultaneously in e-book and print formats in March and June 2010 as the control group, we find that delaying e-book availability results in a 43.8% decrease in e-book sales but no increase in print book sales on Amazon.com or among other online or offline retailers. We also find that the decrease in e-book sales is greater for books with less prerelease buzz. Together, we find no evidence of strong cannibalization between print books and e-books in the short term and no support for the sequential distribution of books in print versions followed by e-book versions. Copyright: © 2018 INFORMS.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/267601
ISSN
0025-1909
2023 Impact Factor: 4.6
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 5.438
SSRN
1966115
ISI Accession Number ID
WOS:000459437600002

 

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dc.description.abstractDigital distribution introduces many new strategic questions for the creative industries-notably, how the use of new digital channels will impact sales in established channels.We analyze this question in the context of e-book and hardcover sales by exploiting a natural experiment that exogenously delayed the release of a publisher's new Kindle e-books in April and May 2010. Using new books released simultaneously in e-book and print formats in March and June 2010 as the control group, we find that delaying e-book availability results in a 43.8% decrease in e-book sales but no increase in print book sales on Amazon.com or among other online or offline retailers. We also find that the decrease in e-book sales is greater for books with less prerelease buzz. Together, we find no evidence of strong cannibalization between print books and e-books in the short term and no support for the sequential distribution of books in print versions followed by e-book versions. Copyright: © 2018 INFORMS.-
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