As We May Think

This Wall Street Journal article explores how PokémonGo and other mobile gaming apps “have mastered techniques for coaxing mobile-game…

Media companies are in a panic over ad-blocking, as an existential threat, now that Apple has enabled it for mobile — but this may just…

Who will pay for journalism? The turbulent first decades of our new digital era suggest no one — or at least too few. Commodity news is…

The increasing shift from bundles of TV channels to Over the Top (OTT) and “a la carte” — or at least “skinny bundles” or re-configurable…

It is time to replace the venerable “invisible hand” of Adam Smith with something new and more suited to the strange and challenging nature…

A thought experiment — Imagine a demon that has perfect ability to read the minds of buyers and sellers to determine individualized value

In the continuing conundrum of pricing digital content, “all you can eat” unlimited subscriptions have become the latest thing to try/hate…

The economics of the music business continues to be highly problematic. The revenue pie for recorded music is a fraction of what it once…

We think we know what a price is, but new kinds of markets require new kinds of prices. A price has a function, and that function has…

Wouldn’t it be nice if buyers volunteered to pay businesses a fair price for what they are offered? Seems like a silly idea! But recent…

— Free? Paid? Freemium?… Finding Whatever Works

Wouldn’t it be good to pay for books based on how you read them?

“When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price”

…and FairPay

Mapping a New Business Model for Journalism