Publishing, bookselling and the World Wide Web

Abstract

Part of a continuing series into the business use of the World Wide Web. Following studies of general business usage of the Web, this paper deals with the special industry sector of publishing and bookselling. Both publishers' and booksellers' use of the World Wide Web are explored, with particular reference to on-line selling, and the results of an e-mail questionnaire are provided.

Keywords

• publishing
• bookselling
• World Wide Web
• e-commerce