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General:

• So Long Supply and Demand
  (Wall Street Journal, 1/1/00)
  

Articles about content sites:

• "Britannica Gives In and Gets Online"
  (Los Angeles Times 10/19/1999)
  
• "The Nirvana News"
  (New York Times 7/9/2000)
  
• "Phone Surfing For a Few Yen"
  (New York Times 8/19/2000)
  
• "Ask the Builder"
  (StrikingItRich.com, Jaclyn Easton; copyright 1999, Jaclyn Easton)
  
• "Gamesville"
  (StrikingItRich.com, Jaclyn Easton; copyright 1999, Jaclyn Easton)
  

Advertising as a revenue model for websites:

• "Why Advertising Doesn't Work on the Web"
  (PC Magazine, 9/1/1997)
  
• "Web Marketers Turn Advertising on Its Head"
  (Wall Street Journal, 1/1/00)
  
• "In Wired World, Much Is Free at Click of a Mouse"
  (New York Times 10/14/1999)
  
• "Ask the Builder"
  (StrikingItRich.com, Jaclyn Easton; copyright 1999, Jaclyn Easton)
  
• "Gamesville"
  (StrikingItRich.com, Jaclyn Easton; copyright 1999, Jaclyn Easton)
  

Price discrimination on the Internet:

• "Now Showing: Random DVD Prices at Amazon">
  (New York Times 9/5/2000)
  
• "On the Web, Price Tags Blur"
  (Washington Post 9/27/00)

Books, music, movies, and the Internet:
(See also some of the articles in "Intellectual Property," below)

• "The Next Chapter"
  (CIO Magazine 9/15/00)
  

Intellectual property, technology, and copyright law:

• "'Business-Method' Patents Create Growing Controversy"
  (Wall Street Journal 10/3/2000)
  
• "The Heavenly Jukebox"
  by Charles Mann, in the September 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthy.
  
• "The Internet Carries Profound Implications For Providers of Information"
  by Hal Varian (New York Times 7/27/2000)
  
• "Let's Give a Toast to Prohibition, Circa 2000"
  by Wayne Overbeck (Los Angeles Times 7/30/2000)
  
• "Online Davids vs. Corporate Goliaths"
  (New York Times 8/6/2000)
  
• "Movie Studios Seek to Stop DVD Copies"
  (New York Times 7/18/2000)
  
• "Free Speech Rights For Computer Code; Suit Tests Power of Media Concerns To Control Access to Digital Content"
  (New York Times 7/31/2000)
  
• "Movie Industry Wins a Round in DVD Copyright Case"
  (New York Times 8/18/2000)
  

Auctions:

• "Online Auctions: Going, Going, Gone...Sucker! How "winner's curse" could undermine this e-commerce channel"
  (Business Week 3/20/2000)
  
• "Lawyer Auction in an Auction Suit"
  (New York Times 4/22/2000)
• "The Antiquarian Book Ring "
  A marvelous account of a London "bidding ring," a classic device by which groups of bidders cheat in auctions.
  (See also the 3/20/2000 Business Week article "Going, Going, Gone ... ")
• "In Online Auctions, Rings of Bidders"
  (New York Times 6/2/2000)
• "Auto Makers Plan Behemoth E-Business"
  (Wall Street Journal 2/26/2000)
  
• "Auctions on the Internet: What's Being Auctioned and How"
  by David Lucking-Reiley, to appear shortly in Journal of Industrial Economics.
• "Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay"
  by Daniel Houser and John Wooders, University of Arizona.
• "Bidding Behavior and Decision Costs in Field Experiments"
  by John List and David Lucking-Reiley.
• "Online Users as Laboratory Rats"
  by Hal Varian (New York Times, 11/16/2000)
  An article about bidding strategy on eBay and Amazon

Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce:

• "Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce"
  by David Lucking-Reiley and Daniel Spulber, to appear shortly in Journal of Economic Perspectives.
• "Selling Motors to Mops, Unglamorous Grainger Is a Web-Sales Star"
  (Wall Street Journal, 12/13/99)
• "Web Competition Trips Grainger"
  (Crain's Chicago Business, 11/19/2000)

The Retail Computer Market:

• An Interview with Dell Computer's Michael Dell
  (Harvard Business Review, April 1998)
• "Inacom was Undone by Rebates, Soft Dollars, and Problem Accounting"
  (Wall Street Journal, 11/8/2000)

Dot-com Failures and Vultures:

• "Overstock.com Feeds on Assets Of Distressed Web 'E-Tailers'"
  (Wall Street Journal, 11/14/2000)
• A collection of news articles about jewelry e-tailers
  
  

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