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Growth and Perception
  • E-commerce
  • Gartner:  2000 prediction for 2004: 7.3 T$
  • Revision:2001 prediction for 2004: 5.9 T$  drastic loss?
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Interactions
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T r e n d s   1998 : 1999
  • Users of the Internet     40% Þ 52% of U.S. population
  • Growth of Net Sites (now 2.2M public sites with 288M pages)
  • Expected growth in E-commerce by Internet users [BW, 6 Sep.1999]
    •        segment   1998       1999
    • books 7.2% Þ 16.0%
    • music & video 6.3% Þ 16.4%
    • toys 3.1% Þ 10.3%
    • travel 2.6% Þ   4.0%
    • tickets 1.4% Þ   4.2%
    • Overall 8.0% Þ 33.0%  = $9.5Billion

  • An unsustainable trend cannot be sustained [Herbert Stein]
  •   Þ new services