The Business of Ecommerce explains how to conduct business over the Web. Accessible and useful to both technical and nontechnical readers, the book describes the relevant business issues to technologists and technical issues to business managers. Paul May combines his experience as a consultant to both blue chip companies and Internet startups to provide a generic model for understanding ecommerce opportunities. He makes accessible all of the relevant technologies. This book empowers technical and business decision-makers to maximize the opportunities of ecommerce.

This volume analyzes strategic marketing approaches on the basis of both marketing theory and international case studies. Its systematic study of Internet commerce models should allow any company to better organize their business and understand where their sources of revenue come from. It offers an assessment of a rapidly growing area, covering current models and showing how they have fared in practice. The book also provides an analytical assessment of the marketplace for business-to-business electronic commerce strategies and Includes recommendations for the implementation of a marketing strategy for business-to-business e-commerce.

Providing material from recognised worldwide sources, this book presents the theory and evidence on electronic commerce and virtual business and examines the impact both outside and inside the business organisation.

This practical question and answer guide provides all the information business people need to know about e-commerce. It explains what it's all about, which technology is used, how to create and market a successful Web site, and how to incorporate e-commerce into an overall business strategy.

This book covers various standards in E-commerce, e.g. data communication and data translation. There are extensive illustrations on various issues ans E-commerce models, which provide a direction in the process of universal E-commerce. It is a complete guide to a business manager.

Written by experienced authors who share academic as well as real-world practices, this text features exceptionally comprehensive yet manageable coverage of a broad spectrum of E-commerce essentials from a global point of view. The new edition pays special attention to the most recent developments in online behavior in our business, academic, and personal lives. Introduction to E-Commerce and E-Marketplaces; Internet Consumer Retailing; Business-to-Business E-Commerce; Other EC Models and Applications; EC Support Services; EC Strategy and Implementation; Application Development Perfect for anyone looking for a brief or supplemental text on EC. Ideal for busy executives.