This 7 page paper examines the current and forecasted trends in e-commerce, including how it may increase competition and reduce trade barriers, and how it may increase the overall value of the market. Amazon.com is used as the example. There are 13 sources listed in the bibliography.
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September the Eleventh 2001 aggregating the slump. The growth level has decline, but there is a situation of limited growth, However, this is not uniform though all industries with some
suffering more than others. One area where there has been growth is through the medium of the internet, however it is also seen as higher risk due to the number
of dot com failures increase raising capital is also harder (Roberts, 2002). Within the industry of e commerce the industry may be
segmented using many methods, One of the most popular is the categorisations is business to business or business to consumer. Business to business means that sale of a product or
service from one business to another business, This will usually mean that there is a transformation process taking place with the purchase being the input to a production or service
that will be further sold. For example, a car manufacturer or furniture manufacturer may source parts using the internet. Even the sale of internet solutions to a business, such as
web sites are business to business ales. The business to consumer market is that which is more widely acknowledged. The difference here
is that the goods are reaching the end of the value chain and being sold to the end user (Thompson, 1998). There are many examples, these may range from electronics
and books through to supermarkets that offer an internet shopping service. It is interesting to note that serves like e bay may distort figures as although a large number of
sales takes place, most of these will not be counted within the figures as they are not sales made by businesses.