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Digital technologies have significantly transformed the creation, distribution, and utilization of creative works, enhancing accessibility, challenging traditional business models, and altering the dynamics between producers and consumers. This resource offers a comprehensive overview of academic research on the effects of digitization within the creative sector. Spanning 37 chapters, it compiles insights from experts across various dimensions of digitization in creative industries. With an interdisciplinary approach, the volume delves into detailed studies of digitization in the arts, media, and cultural sectors, making it a valuable resource for diverse educational courses. It serves as thought-provoking material for academics, researchers, students, and policymakers interested in advancements within the creative economy. The contributions come from a wide array of scholars, ensuring a rich exploration of the topic.

A Handbook of Cultural Economics, now available in paperback, includes over 60 eminently readable and concise articles by 50 expert contributors. This unique Handbook is both highly informative and readable; it covers a wide area of cultural economics and its closely related subjects. While being accessible to any reader with a basic knowledge of economics, it presents a comprehensive study at the fore-front of the field. Of the many subjects discussed, chapters Art (including auctions, markets, prices, anthropology), artists’ labor markets, arts management and corporate sponsorship, globalization, the internet, media economics, museums, non-profit organizations, opera, performance indicators, performing arts, publishing, regulation, tax expenditures, value of culture and welfare economics.

Written by an internationally renowned expert in the field, Professor Ruth Towse, this book presents a comprehensive yet concise introduction to cultural economics. She covers a broad range of topics in the arts and cultural industries, using the tools of economics to explain their supply and demand, production and consumption.