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Everything about Markdown
Plain text markup language
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, and large language models, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, note-taking software, documentation pages, and README files. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MarkdownA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Markdown Policies for Demand Learning with Forward-Looking CustomersInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: R MarkdownThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Optimal Markdown Pricing: Implications of Inventory Display Formats in the Presence of Strategic CustomersCited 237 times
- Go sideways: Textile (markup language)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Lightweight markup languageA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
Proper noun Alternative letter-case form of Markdown, a lightweight markup language.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Optimal Markdown Pricing: Implications of Inventory Display Formats in the Presence of Strategic Customers
Managing retail channel overstock: markdown money and return policies
Markdown or Everyday Low Price? The Role of Behavioral Motives
The Coordination of Fashion Supply Chains With a Risk-Averse Supplier Under the Markdown Money Policy
Markdown Pricing with Unknown Fraction of Strategic Customers
Coordinating Clearance Markdown Sales of Seasonal Products in Retail Chains
R Markdown: Integrating A Reproducible Analysis Tool into Introductory Statistics
Joint Inventory and Markdown Management for Perishable Goods with Strategic Consumer Behavior
🆕 Influential since 2022
Markdown Policies for Demand Learning with Forward-Looking Customers
Optimal markdown policies for perishable products with fixed shelf life
EviewsR: An R Package for Dynamic and Reproducible Research Using EViews, R, R Markdown and Quarto
Reselling or agency model under markdown pricing policy in the presence of strategic customers
A variant SDDP approach for periodic-review approximately optimal pricing of a slow-moving a item in a duopoly under price protection with end-of-life return and retail fixed markdown policy
📚 Books worth reading
R MarkdownYihui Xie, Garrett Grolemund · 2018- 📕BlogdownYihui Xie, Alison Presmanes Hill · 2017
Annual winter bargain offerMayfair Nurseries · 1953- 📕MarkdownsNational Retail Merchants Association. Merchandising Division. · 1961
- 📕Creative markdown practices for profitKrieger, Murray · 1971
- 📕Factors influencing consumer reaction to retail newspaper "sale" advertisingJames G. Barnes · 1975
- 📕How to reduce markdowns and shortagesIrving Goldenthal · 1959
- 📕On the reasons for gradual markdowns by retailersPaul S Calem · 1989
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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