Fair use and fair competition for digitized cultural goods: the case of eBooks

This paper investigates the main characteristics of the eBook market at the beginning of the 2010s. Although just emerging in Europe, the eBook market is much more developed in the USA, thanks to the launch of the Amazon Kindle in 2007 in addition to other tablets. It argues that the peculiarities o...

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Published in:Journal of cultural economics 2015-05, Vol.39 (2), p.123-131
Main Author: Benhamou, Françoise
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Amazon
Arts
Book trade
Bookstores
Business conditions
Competition
Consumers
Consumption
Cultural Economics
Cultural industry
Cultural property
Digitization
Disruptive innovation
E-books
Economic models
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Electronic book readers
Europe
Fair use
International
Market
Market strategy
Microeconomics
Music
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Publishing industry
Regional and Cultural Studies
Studies
Value chain
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Arts
Book trade
Bookstores
Business conditions
Competition
Consumers
Consumption
Cultural Economics
Cultural industry
Cultural property
Digitization
Disruptive innovation
E-books
Economic models
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Electronic book readers
Europe
Fair use
International
Market
Market strategy
Microeconomics
Music
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Publishing industry
Regional and Cultural Studies
Studies
Value chain
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