Pricing computer services: queueing effects
Communications of the ACM
Optimal incentive-compatible priority pricing for the M/M/1 queue
Operations Research
User delay costs and internal pricing for a service facility
Management Science
Pricing in computer networks: motivation, formulation, and example
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Online
Public access to the Internet
Service models and pricing policies for an integrated services Internet
Public access to the Internet
Pricing of electronic resources: interviews with three vendors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Economic issues in electronic commerce
Readings in electronic commerce
Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency
Management Science
Introduction to Stochastic Dynamic Programming: Probability and Mathematical
Introduction to Stochastic Dynamic Programming: Probability and Mathematical
Mariposa: a wide-area distributed database system
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Service Design and Price Competition in Business Information Services
Operations Research
Bundling and Competition on the Internet
Marketing Science
Integrating User Preferences and Real-Time Workload in Information Services
Information Systems Research
Organizing Distribution Channels for Information Goods on the Internet
Management Science
Marketing Models of Service and Relationships
Marketing Science
Pricing Diagnostic Information
Management Science
Pricing web 2.0 related services: peer production
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce
A Markov-based collaborative pricing system for information goods bundling
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Price Mechanism for Knowledge Transfer: An Integrative Theory
Journal of Management Information Systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Use of Pricing Schemes for Differentiating Information Goods
Information Systems Research
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Evaluating a model for cost-effective data quality management in a real-world CRM setting
Decision Support Systems
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on IT Services Management and Service Science
Journal of Management Information Systems
Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure
Information Systems Research
PODS '12 Proceedings of the 31st symposium on Principles of Database Systems
Cost exploration of data sharings in the cloud
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
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Online information servers that provide access to diverse databases where users can search for, browse through, and download the information they need have been rapidly increasing in number in the past few years. Online vendors have traditionally charged users for information on the based on the length of the time they were connected to the databases. With hardware and software advances, many online servers have recently started changing their pricing strategies to search-based and/or subscription-fee pricing. This paper examines the various issues involved in pricing these information products, and presents an economic approach to analyze conditions under which the various pricing schemes may prove optimal for the online servers. Our results show that the variation in consumer expertise and valuation of information affects the choice of a pricing strategy by the server. We present general conditions under which subscription-fee pricing is optimal even when consumer demand is inelastic. We also find that, given the cost structures characterizing the market, undifferentiated online servers can compete and coexist in the market each making positive profits. We show that in a competitive setting an increase in costs of online servers can sometimes benefit them by enabling them to differentiate themselves. Our results offer insights into the trends in pricing strategies and may provide an explanation as to why many servers may persist with connect-time strategies.