Agency VS.Wholesale:The Effect of Information Sharing on the E-Book Sales Model
Under the background of asymmetric demand information in a publisher and a retail platform,this paper establishes the Stackelberg game model to explore the impact of the retail platform's demand information sharing decision on the e-book sales model strategy.The main results show that:1)The retail platform does not always share demand information with the publisher under the wholesale model.Under the agency model,if the commission rate from selling e-books is high,the retail platform will share demand information;Otherwise,the retail platform will not share demand information.2)For the retail platform,in cases where the retail platform doesn't share demand information in both agency and wholesale models,the retail platform prefers the wholesale model.In cases where the retail platform shares demand information only in the agency model,if the accuracy of demand information is low,the retail platform prefers the agency model.3)For the publisher,the retail platform's decision to share demand information,the substitution rate of e-books for paper books,and the accuracy of demand information will all affect the publisher's choice of sales model.
Demand information sharinge-bookssales modelagency modelwhole-sale model