•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