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The term e-commerce embraces all the ways of transacting business via electronic data. (9) and it is the internet that has put e-commerce near the top of the corporate agenda in the first years of the 21st century.
(10) but it embodies a revolutionary idea: that electronic commerce is qualitatively
different from ordinary time-worn commerce, that ( in the jargon) there is a paradigm shift in the way that business is conducted in the world of e-commerce. Doing business via the internet is not only much quicker and much cheaper than other methods, (11) There is the much-vaunted death of distance: a customer 10,000 miles away becomes as accessible as one around the corner. And e-commerce has created the phenomenon of the long tail.
(12) In its April 1999 report "Making Open Finance Pay", Forrester Research, an American research company, gave examples of the way in which the internet had altered the pricing structure of a number of industries, particularly those with high information content. Before the advent of the internet it cost $100 to make an equity market order. Afterwards it cost just $15, an 85 % fall in price, far more than could ever have been gleaned from traditional economies of scale. This is a revolution for organizations whose structures and strategies have built-in assumptions about relationships between price and volume.
(13) Online sales in the United States are reckoned to have grown by some 18% in 2007. The country's five largest online retailers (often called e-tailers) were Amazon, Staples, Office Depot, Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Dell became a market leader in computers through early use of the internet to sell goods and services direct to consumers, and to buy components from suppliers.
Financial service offerings over the internet have also sprouted like mushrooms, (14) At Charles Schwab, an American retail brokerage firm, it took just three years for online dealing to account for more than half of all its securities trading.
A. Furthermore, economies of scale are undermined
B. although security issues have imposed some restraint on the industry
C. E-commerce is merely an elision of electronic commerce
D. E-commerce also allows unknown firms to establish new businesses cheaply and rapidly
E. Electronic commerce has grown rapidly
F. But it is most closely identified with commerce transacted over the internet
G. though the security challenges is being faced as a result of engaging in electronic commerce
H. it is also thought to overturn old rules about time, space and price