Innovation, Bestsellers and Digitization – Where to Find the Needle in the Haystack?

We empirically analyze the role of e-Commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers in discovering new bestsellers in the book market, using the German market as an example. Using an AR(1)-Process, we find that when a title becomes a bestseller sales increase in e-Commerce and decrease in brick- and-mortar...

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Veröffentlicht in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 12-2020)
Autoren: Götz, Georg, Herold, Daniel, Klotz, Phil-Andrian, Schäfer, Jan Thomas
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020
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Zusammenfassung:We empirically analyze the role of e-Commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers in discovering new bestsellers in the book market, using the German market as an example. Using an AR(1)-Process, we find that when a title becomes a bestseller sales increase in e-Commerce and decrease in brick- and-mortar stores relative to a title that is not on the bestseller-list. This finding implies that consumers in the online channel respond by increasing sales upon receiving a quality signal (i.e., a title becoming a bestseller). Consumers in the online channel seem to already know that title so that, compared to a title that is not on the bestseller-lists, sales are decreasing. This might imply that consumers in the online channel are more likely to read future bestsellers..
Umfang:15 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0639