Pricing and monetization · Cross-sectional questionnaire survey with structural relationships tested empirically
Are digital content subscription services still thriving? Analyzing the conflict between innovation adoption and resistance
Jie Yang, Youngkyung Kwon (2024). Are digital content subscription services still thriving? Analyzing the conflict between innovation adoption and resistance. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2024.100581
Plain-English take
Compatibility increased actual usage; trialability and tradition barriers reduced actual usage; actual usage increased continuous purchase intention.
How much weight to give this
2/5 Observational or survey evidence; interpret as association
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Cross-sectional questionnaire survey with structural relationships tested empirically
250 Japanese digital-content subscription subscribers
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Only the publisher page was checked; full-text methods are not established.
Double-blind? Blinding was not established from the publisher page; this is not evidence that blinding was or was not used.
Research question
What the authors investigated
Are digital content subscription services still thriving? Analyzing the conflict between innovation adoption and resistance?
Design
Cross-sectional questionnaire survey with structural relationships tested empirically
Sample and setting
250 Japanese digital-content subscription subscribers
Reported result
What the study found
Compatibility increased actual usage; trialability and tradition barriers reduced actual usage; actual usage increased continuous purchase intention.
This is a paraphrase of the source. Check the original paper for definitions, estimates, statistical uncertainty and analysis details.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
The sample is limited to Japanese digital-content subscribers and the cross-sectional self-report design cannot establish temporal causality or generalize to other subscription categories. The accessible publisher page was used for this listing; correction history was not independently checked.
Possible founder application
Use as a bounded example of are digital content subscription services still thriving? analyzing the conflict between innovation adoption and resistance; compare its context and design with your own market before applying its result.
Evidence access
Publisher article page; full-text availability varies and was not established in this review.
The publisher page states that a questionnaire survey of 250 Japanese digital-content subscribers found compatibility positively affected actual usage, while trialability and tradition barriers negatively affected it. Publisher page was directly retrieved; detailed full-text methods were not independently verified.
If only an abstract or metadata was available, the profile is limited to claims supported there. A paper's paywall does not change its evidentiary status, but it limits what we can substantiate from accessible text.