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- 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
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