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Diderot's rule

Diderot's Daumenregel
[working paper]

Beck, Jonathan

Corporate Editor
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Abstract

"Like many new products, newly released creative goods such as books, music records and movies are sometimes 'surprise' hits but often flops. Experimental and empirical research suggests that it is hard to predict the demand for a new creative good, and therefore its success, even for industry exper... view more

"Like many new products, newly released creative goods such as books, music records and movies are sometimes 'surprise' hits but often flops. Experimental and empirical research suggests that it is hard to predict the demand for a new creative good, and therefore its success, even for industry experts. Rules of thumb on the quantitative properties of demand uncertainty exist for various creative industries - including a rule by Denis Diderot (1763) according to which one out of ten published books is a commercial success. Yet, representative evidence on any industry's new-product success rate is scarce. This paper studies new-product success in a random sample of novels. Its empirical strategy to identify success - a simple characterization of author-publisher bargaining combined with a parsimonious model of new-product diffusion - is based on the common observation that word-of-mouth is a crucial success factor in creative industries. Parametric and semi-parametric estimation results corroborate Diderot's rule: between 10 and 15% of novels enjoy significantly positive effects of word-of-mouth." (author's abstract)... view less


"Neu veröffentlichte Kreativgüter wie Bücher, Musikalben und Filme sind, ähnlich anderen neuen Produkten, zwar manchmal 'Überraschungserfolge', meistens jedoch Flops. Laut experimentellem und empirischem Forschungsstand ist es selbst für Branchenexperten schwierig, die Nachfrage nach einem neuen Kre... view more

"Neu veröffentlichte Kreativgüter wie Bücher, Musikalben und Filme sind, ähnlich anderen neuen Produkten, zwar manchmal 'Überraschungserfolge', meistens jedoch Flops. Laut experimentellem und empirischem Forschungsstand ist es selbst für Branchenexperten schwierig, die Nachfrage nach einem neuen Kreativgut, und damit seinen kommerziellen Erfolg, vorherzusagen. Daumenregeln zu den quantitativen Eigenschaften dieser Nachfrageunsicherheit existieren in einigen kreativen Branchen - unter anderem eine Regel von Denis Diderot (1763), wonach eines von zehn veröffentlichten Büchern ein kommerzieller Erfolg ist. Allerdings mangelt es an repräsentativer Evidenz zu der Erfolgsrate neuer Produkte, gleich in welcher Branche. Dieses Papier untersucht den Erfolg neuer Produkte in einer zufälligen Stichprobe von Romanen. Die verwendete empirische Strategie zur Identifikation von Erfolg - eine einfache Charakterisierung der Verhandlungen zwischen Autor und Verlag, kombiniert mit einem überschaubaren Modell der Diffusion neuer Produkte - basiert auf der verbreiteten Beobachtung, dass Mundpropaganda ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor in kreativen Branchen ist. Parametrische und semiparametrische Schätzergebnisse bestätigen Diderot's Daumenregel: zwischen 10 und 15% der Romane profitieren von einem signifikant positiven Einfluß von Mundpropaganda." (Autorenreferat)... view less

Keywords
prognosis; diffusion; demand; product; success; book trade; art production; market; novel; interdependence; regularity; marketing; culture industry; literature; advertising

Classification
Marketing
Economic Sectors

Free Keywords
new-product success rate; demand uncertainty; word-of-mouth; creative industries; Diderot, D.; D83; L82; Z1

Document language
English

Publication Year
2008

City
Berlin

Page/Pages
31 p.

Series
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Märkte und Politik, Abteilung Wettbewerb und Innovation, 2008-13

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications

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