Abstract
In the last years new concepts of digital music distribution have been developed. One of them is Music as a Service, which provides music streaming over the internet as a service - without transferring ownership for the content. This differentiates Music as a Service from Download to Own, which is used by music download platforms predominantly and is the most widely studied concept in academic research. The aim of this paper is to receive first research implications about customers’ attitudes towards MaaS.
Based on an empirical survey of 132 Music as a Service users, this research explores the effects of product configurations on consumers’ utility and their willingness to pay (WTP) for premium offers. We can show that next to price, contract duration and music quality as the most important product attributes, there is a high WTP for overcoming insufficient mobile internet coverage.
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Doerr, J., Benlian, A., Vetter, J., Hess, T. (2010). Pricing of Content Services – An Empirical Investigation of Music as a Service. In: Nelson, M.L., Shaw, M.J., Strader, T.J. (eds) Sustainable e-Business Management. AMCIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15141-5_2
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