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In America, women now outnumber over men online; the average age of all web suffers is
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increasing; their level of education is decreasing; and their average spending is growing. In a
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short, online consumers are rapidly becoming just like offline consumers. So it should be come
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as no surprise that, just as it was on the high street, clothing was the biggest category of goods
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sold online in America at last Christmas. Similar trends are already evident in Europe and will no
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doubt spread to Asia. But e-commerce involves in a lot more than retail sales and services such as travel, in which more than half of all bookings are expected to move online within a few years.
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For instance, with billions of dollars of used goods are now sold on internet auction sites, notably on the hugely successful eBay. Second-hand cars are now eBay's biggest category, sales that
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many once thought would be impossible to conduct on the internet. Some of the big American
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dotcoms are now finding that growth is accelerating even faster than overseas: eBay's Chinese service, for instance, is already the biggest e-commerce site in that country. Then there are the
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billions spent on buying everything from pornography to financial services—and this does not
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include business-to-business (B2B) services, already worth more than $1 trillion a year according
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to some estimates. Wal-Mart, for one reason, now conducts all its business with suppliers over a proprietary B2B network.