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Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing and Electronic Commerce

Open Access and the evolution of scholarly communication, A. Odlyzko. Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, no. 91, March 2014, pp. 41-42. [preprint, text] [entire issue, online]
Are libraries and Open Access becoming irrelevant?, A. Odlyzko. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 61, no. 4, April 2014, pp. 390-392. [online version]
Will smart pricing finally take off?, A. Odlyzko. Pages 3-33 in Smart Data Pricing, S. Sen, C. Joe-Wong, S. Ha, and M. Chiang, eds., Wiley, 2014. [preprint, PDF]
Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce, A. Odlyzko. Evaluation Review, vol. 39, no. 1, Feb. 2015, pp. 130-163. [preprint, PDF] [online journal version]
Know Your Limits: Considering the Role of Data Caps and Usage Based Billing in Internet Access Service, A. Odlyzko, B. St. Arnaud, E. Stallman, and M. Weinberg, Public Knowledge, May 2012. [white paper, PDF]
The volume and value of information, A. Odlyzko. International Journal of Communication, vol. 6, 2012. [online journal version, PDF]
Flat versus metered rates, bundling, and "bandwidth hogs," P. Nabipay, A. Odlyzko, and Z.-L. Zhang. Proceedings of NetEcon 11: 6th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation. [NetEcon 11 program, with papers] [preprint, PDF]
Social networks and mathematical models: A research commentary on `Critical mass and willingness to pay for social networks' by J. Christopher Westland, A. Odlyzko. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, vol. 9, 2010, pp. 26-28. [PDF]
Network neutrality, search neutrality, and the never-ending conflict between efficiency and fairness in markets, A. Odlyzko. Review of Network Economics, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 40-60. [RNE full paper]
Preprint: [PDF]
Digital rights management: Desirable, inevitable, and almost irrelevant, A. Odlyzko. Extended abstract. DRM'07: Proc. 2007 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, ACM, 2007, pp. 39-40. [PDF]
Privacy and the clandestine evolution of ecommerce, A. Odlyzko. To appear in Proceedings ICEC2007: Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ACM, 2007. [PDF]
Metcalfe's Law is Wrong, B. Briscoe, A. Odlyzko, and B. Tilly, IEEE Spectrum, July 2006, pp. 26-31. [online version]
An earlier and more detailed preprint: A refutation of Metcalfe's Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections, A. Odlyzko and B. Tilly. [PDF]
Economic costs of toll access, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 32-35 in Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, Neil Jacobs, ed., Chandos, 2006. [Chapter, PDF]
[Book information]
Finding a voice: Learning from history, A. M. Odlyzko. Pages 58-64 in Connected Homes, F. Gil de Bernabe y Varela, ed., Cisco, 2004. [text] [online version of Connected Homes book]
Why electronic publishing means people will pay different prices, A. M. Odlyzko. Nature web forum, Access to the literature: The debate continues, March 25, 2004. [preprint, text] [Nature version]
The evolution of price discrimination in transportation and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko, Review of Network Economics, vol. 3, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 323-346. [RNE full paper]
This paper is based on a more extensive manuscript, presented at TPRC 2004, Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation, A. M. Odlyzko. [PDF]
Privacy, economics, and price discrimination on the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. ICEC2003: Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, N. Sadeh, ed., ACM, 2003, pp. 355-366. Reprinted on pp. 187-211 of Economics of Information Security, L. Jean Camp and S. Lewis, eds., Kluwer, 2004. Also reprinted on pp. 39-61 of The Icfaian Journal of Management Research, vol. 3, no. 12, December 2004. [PDF]
The unsolvable privacy problem and its implications for security technologies, A. M. Odlyzko. Information Security and Privacy: 8th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2003, R. Safavi-Naini and J. Seberry, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2727, Springer, 2003, pp. 51-54. [PDF] [text]
The case against micropayments, A. M. Odlyzko. Financial Cryptography: 7th International Conference, FC 2003, R. N. Wright, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2742, Springer, 2003, pp. 77-83. [PDF] [text]
Economics, psychology, and sociology of security, A. M. Odlyzko. Financial Cryptography: 7th International Conference, FC 2003, R. N. Wright, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2742, Springer, 2003, pp. 182-189. [PDF] [text]
Peer and non-peer review, A. M. Odlyzko. Peer Review in Health Sciences, 2nd ed., F. Godlee and T. Jefferson, eds., BMJ Books, 2003, pp. 309-311. [text]
Talk, Talk, Talk: So who needs streaming video on a phone? The killer app for 3G may turn out to be--surprise--voice calls, A. M. Odlyzko. Forbes, August 20, 2001, p. 28. [text] [Forbes version]
Internet TV: Implications for the long distance network, A. M. Odlyzko. In Internet Television, E. Noam, J. Groebel, and D. Gerbarg, eds., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, pp. 9-18. [PDF] [text]
The Public Library of Science and the ongoing revolution in scholarly communication, A. M. Odlyzko. Nature web forum, Future e-access to the primary literature, Sept. 18, 2001. [preprint, text] [Nature version]
The myth of Internet time, A. M. Odlyzko. Technology Review, 104(3) (April 2001), pp. 92-93. [preprint, text] [Technology Review version]
The future of scientific communication, A. M. Odlyzko. Access to Publicly Financed Research: The Global Research Village III, Amsterdam 2000, P. Wouters and P. Schroeder, eds., NIWI, 2000, pp. 273-278. [Abstract] [PDF]
Content is not king, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 6(2) (February 2001), http://firstmonday.org/. [Abstract] [PDF] [First Monday version]
Internet pricing and the history of communications, A. M. Odlyzko. Computer Networks 36 (2001), pp. 493-517. Also to be published in Internet Services, Lee McKnight and John Wroclawski, eds., MIT Press, 2001. [Abstract] [PDF] An extended abstract, entitled Internet pricing in light of the history of communication has appeared in Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks, S. Fahmy and K. Park, eds., Proc. SPIE, vol. 4526 (2001), pp. 237-243. [Abstract] [PDF] An even more abbreviated version has appeared under the title Should flat-rate Internet pricing continue?, IT Professional 2 (no. 5) (Sept.-Oct. 2000), pp. 48-51. [IT Pro version]
Both of the above papers are derived from a larger and more comprehensive work:
The history of communications and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko. [Abstract] [PDF]
Cryptographic abundance and pervasive computing, A. M. Odlyzko. iMP: Information Impacts Magazine, June 2000. [text] [iMP version at Wayback Machine]
The rapid evolution of scholarly communication, A. M. Odlyzko. Learned Publishing, 15(1) (Jan. 2002), pp. 7-19. Also in Economics and usage of digital libraries: byting the bullet, W. Lougee and J. MacKie-Mason, eds., University of Michigan University Library, 2008. [Abstract] [PDF] [Word] [Learned Publishing version] [version in Lougee and MacKie-Mason book] [entire Lougee and MacKie-Mason book]
Abstracting and reviewing in the digital era, A. M. Odlyzko, NFAIS Newsletter 41 (no. 6) (June 1999), pp. 85, 90-92. [text]
Competition and cooperation: Libraries and publishers in the transition to electronic scholarly journals, A. M. Odlyzko. Journal of Electronic Publishing 4(4) (June 1999), in the online collection The Transition from Paper: Where are we Going and how will we get there?, R. S. Berry and A. S. Moffatt, eds., American Academy of Arts & Sciences, http://www.amacad.org/publications/trans.htm, and in J. Scholarly Publishing 30(4) (July 1999), pp. 163-185. [Abstract] [PDF] [text] [Word] [JEP version] [AAA&S collection version]
The evolution of electronic scholarly communication, A. M. Odlyzko, pp. 3-4 in Science Editing and Information Management (Proc. Second Intern. AESE/CBE/EASE Joint Meeting, Sixth Intern. Conf. Geoscience Information, and Thirty-second Annual Meeting of Assoc. Earth Science Editors), C. J. Manson, ed., Geoscience Information Society, 1999. [text]
Who should own scientific papers?, S. Bachrach, R. S. Berry, M. Blume, T. von Foerster, A. Fowler, P. Ginsparg, S. Heller, N. Kestner, A. Odlyzko, A. Okerson, R. Wigington, and A. Moffat, Science 281 (no. 5382) (Sept. 4, 1998), pp. 1459-1460. [HTML] [Science version]
The future of money, A. M. Odlyzko. [text]
The slow evolution of electronic publishing, A. M. Odlyzko, in Electronic Publishing '97: New Models and Opportunities, A. J. Meadows and F. Rowland, eds., ICCC Press, 1997, pp. 4-18. [PDF] [Word] [text]
Competitive pricing of information goods: Subscription pricing versus pay-per-use, P. C. Fishburn and A. M. Odlyzko, Economic Theory 13 (1999), pp. 447-470. [PDF]
Silicon dreams and silicon bricks: the continuing evolution of libraries, A. M. Odlyzko, Library Trends 46 (no. 1) (Summer 1997), pp. 152-167. [PDF] [text]
Electronics and the future of education, A. M. Odlyzko. On the Horizon 5(4) (July/August 1997), pp. 8-9. Extended version in the online collection The Transition from Paper: Where are we Going and how will we get there?, R. S. Berry and A. S. Moffatt, eds., American Academy of Arts & Sciences, http://www.amacad.org/publications/trans.htm. [text] [extended version] [extended version in AAA&S collection]
The economics of electronic journals, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 2(8) (August 1997), http://firstmonday.org/, and Journal of Electronic Publishing 4(1) (September 1998). Definitive version on pp. 380-393 in Technology and Scholarly Communication, R. Ekman and R. E. Quandt, eds., Univ. Calif. Press, 1999. [PDF] [text] [Word] [First Monday version] [JEP version]
An efficient micropayment system based on probabilistic polling, S. Jarecki and A. M. Odlyzko, in Financial Cryptography, R. Hirschfeld, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1318, Springer, 1997, pp. 173-191. [PDF]
Fixed fee versus unit pricing for information goods: competition, equilibria, and price wars, P. C. Fishburn, A. M. Odlyzko, and R. C. Siders, First Monday 2(7) (July 1997), http://firstmonday.org/. Definitive version on pp. 167-189 in Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property, B. Kahin and H. R. Varian, eds., MIT Press, 2000. [PDF] [Word] [First Monday version]
The bumpy road of electronic commerce, A. M. Odlyzko, in WebNet 96 - World Conf. Web Soc. Proc., H. Maurer, ed., AACE, 1996, pp. 443-456. [PDF] [text] [WebNet online proceedings]
On the road to electronic publishing, A. M. Odlyzko, Euromath Bulletin, 2 (no. 1) (1996), pp. 49-60. [text]
Tragic loss or good riddance? The impending demise of traditional scholarly journals, A. M. Odlyzko, full version in Intern. J. Human-Computer Studies (formerly Intern. J. Man-Machine Studies) 42 (1995), pp. 71-122, and in the electronic J. Univ. Comp. Sci., pilot issue, vol. 0, 1994. Condensed version in Notices Amer. Math. Soc., vol. 42 (Jan. 1995), pp. 49-53, and reprinted in Deutsche Math. Ver. Mitteilungen, 1995 (no. 1), pp. 19-24, and, in a French traslation by D. Foata, Perte tragique ou bon debarras? La disparition imminente des revues savantes traditionnelles, in Gazette des mathematiciens, no. 63 (1995), pp. 41-52. It has also been reprinted, as part of an electronic discussion presentation, on pp. 63-73 of Scholarly Journals at the Crosroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing, A. S. Okerson and J. J. O'Donnell, eds., Assoc. Res. Lib. 1995 and on pp. 91-101 in Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier, Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby, eds., MIT Press, 1996. [text of full and condensed versions] [PDF of full version] [PDF of condensed version] [JUCS online version] [condensed AMS Notices version]

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