Electronic commerce, or e-commerce, is a very broad term. E-commerce conducted between businesses differs from that carried out between a business and its consumers. For business-to-consumer e-commerce, the Web has become the dominant pipeline. E-commerce is not just about buying and selling things over the Internet but also the electronic exchange of business data between two or more organizations' computer systems. E-commerce includes buying and selling any item over the Internet, electronic fund transfer, smart …showed first 75 words of 2758 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2758 total…International and this is available via subscription only. Windham, L. & Orton, K. (2000). The soul of the new consumer. New York, NY: Allworth Press, Inc. Appendices Appendix A eMarketer website, Retail E-Commerce: Future Trends, December, 2005, http://www.emarketer.com Appendix B eMarketer website, Retail E-Commerce: Future Trends, December, 2005, http://www.emarketer.com, Source: Forrester Research, May 2005 Appendix C eMarketer, Western Europe: E-Commerce: Spotlight on the UK, Germany and France, June 2005, http://www.emarketer.com