Searching for Physical and Digital Media: The Evolution of Platforms for Finding Books

Michael R. Baye, Babur De los Santos, Matthijs R. Wildenbeest

NBER Working Paper No. 19519
Issued in October 2013

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We thank Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Marc Rysman, Catherine Tucker, Hal Varian, and seminar participants at the NBER Economics of Digitization conference for valuable comments. We thank Susan Kayser, I. K. Kim, Joowon Kim, and Yoojin Lee for research assistance. Funding for the data and research assistance related to this research was made possible by a grant from Google to Indiana University. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Indiana University, Google, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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