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  • Internet “piracy” and book sales: a field experiment

  • Wojciech Hardy, Michał Krawczyk, Joanna Tyrowicz
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Economic Science Association / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2025, pp. 457-471
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  • The widespread Internet “piracy” continues to fuel the debate about business models impervious to copyright infringement. We studied the displacement effects of “piracy” on sales in the book industry. We conducted a year-long large-scale field experiment: in the treatment group, we removed unauthorised copies appearing on the Internet and observed the sales data, whereas in the control group, we simply observed sales. We were able to substantially curb the unauthorised distribution, which resulted in a small, positive effect on sales. While using classical analysis we found it not to be significantly different from zero, a Bayesian approach using previous “piracy” studies to generate a prior led to the conclusion that protecting from piracy resulted in a significant sales boost of about 9 per cent.

  • 19 - Anime Fandom in Japan and Beyond

  • from Part IX - Forms of Use
  • Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Stockholms Universitet
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
    Published online:
    07 November 2024
    Print publication:
    31 October 2024, pp 256-266

  • Summary

    This chapter explores how anime fan audiences have evolved since the 1950s regarding the development of physical venues and digital platforms. Fan audiences as “produser” (Bruns, 2008) consume, produce, and use anime and its related content through their various activities such as producing derivative works (dojinshi fanzines, music videos, and even games), performing cosplay, engaging in contents tourism, and so on. Fans’ deep commitment was incited by anime booms that happened in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The 1970s saw the beginning of the Comic Market, where fans can communicate with one another by selling and purchasing fanzines and performing cosplay, although the issue of copyright infringement has remained unsolved. Moreover, since the late 1990s, the internet and social media have facilitated the dissemination of anime and other contents produced through media mix (i.e., multimedia franchises) on an international scope. They also serve as platforms for fans to interact with each other domestically and globally.