Some economic aspects of the Internet

Donald W. King

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998, vol. 49, issue 11, 990-1002

Abstract: This article describes a broad framework for examining economic aspects of the Internet. The framework consists of four sets of processes, services, and participants, including information creation, use, communication (the Internet communications infrastructure), and value‐added information processes (the Internet information infrastructure). Each process (or service) involves several economic measures (input cost, output, use, and outcomes) and relationships among these measures (unit cost, price/demand, cost and benefit, etc.). Examples of economic aspects are given for all four sets of processes which emphasize the environment with which ASIS members primarily deal: Electronic publishing, secondary information services, and library services. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1998
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