Contents: Introduction / Patrick-Yves Badillo and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd -- Impediments to a global information society / Robert G. Picard -- Transformation of Internet-based companies' business models : ten years after the dot.com burst / Christophe Garonne and Félix Weygand -- The management of a hybrid broadcasting model : reconciling public and commercial interests / Suzana Zilic Fiser -- The dynamics of media business models : innovation, versioning and blended media / Patrick-Yves Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois -- The dynamics of media concentration : the American experience / Eli M. Noam -- Measuring media concentration for the purposes of ensuring pluralism and diversity / Petros Iosifidis -- Concentration in the French press industry : quanititative analysis / Patrick-Yves Badillo and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd -- The effects of competition on the profitability of European television channels / Juan P. Artero ... [et al.] -- Preference for flat-rate media access fees : a behavioural economics interpretation / Hitoshi Mitomo and Tokio Otsuka -- Explaining prices paid for television ad time : the purchasing profile model / W. Wayne Fu, Hairong Li and Steven S. Wildman -- Advertising media strategies in the film industry / Caroline Elliott and Rob Simmons -- Demand for movies in Europe and the effects of multiplex diffusion / Orietta Dessy and Marco Gambaro -- Quantitative analyses of the media industries and of their markets : concluding comments / Orhan Güvenen.