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Internet and American Business

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ISBN-10: 0262012405

ISBN-13: 9780262012409

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paul E. Ceruzzi, William Aspray

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When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Businessfills this gap, picking up where most scholarly histories of the Internet leave off--with the commercialization of the Internet established and its effect on traditional business a fact of life. These essays, describing challenges successfully met by some companies and failures to adapt by others, are a first attempt to understand a dynamic…    
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Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/25/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Paul E. Ceruzzi is a Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the author of A History of Modern Computing, Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Introduction
The Internet before Commercialization
Internet Technologies Seeking a Business Model
Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States
Protocols for Profit
Web and E-mail Technologies as Product and Infrastructure
The Web's Missing Links
Search Engines and Portals
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service
Historical Perspectives on the Computer Utility and Software for Lease on a Network
Commerce in the Internet World
Discovering a Role Online
Brick-and-Mortar Retailers and the Internet
Small Ideas, Big Ideas, Bad Ideas, Good Ideas
"Get Big Fast" and Dot-Com Venture Creation
Industry Transformation and Selective Adoption
Internet Challenges for Media Businesses
Internet Challenges for Nonmedia Industries, Firms, and Workers
Travel Agencies, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, Personal Computer Manufacturers, and Information Technology Services Professionals
Resistance Is Futile?
Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet
New Technology-Old and New Business Uses
New Wine in Old and New Bottles
Patterns and Effects of the Internet on Companies
Communities and Specialized Information Businesses
Newly Created or Amplified Problems
File Sharing and the Music Industry
Eros Unbound
Pornography and the Internet
Lessons Learned, Future Opportunities
Market and Agora
Community Building by Internet
Conclusions
List of Contributors
Index