Increasingly, magazines are able to offer potential advertisers all their readers (pure bundling), only specific reader segments (pure components pricing), or a combination of the two (mixed bundling). Using data on advertising rates and reader demographics, the authors estimate the implicit prices of reader characteristics within a hedonic framework. The results suggest that the magnitude of the price and revenue premiums earned by “unbundling” a magazine's readers can be substantial.
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