Americans today are clearly willing to pay a hefty premium, i.e.

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Moreover, there are some features of the Internet that justify a substantial premium for the more successful e-commerce firms.

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Amazon has branched out into own-brand products, has set up specialist e-commerce sites in several premium markets and is dabbling in moviemaking and television production.

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Ovi will be offered alongside their own services, and operators will take a cut of the revenues which Nokia hopes to make from advertising, e-commerce and subscriptions to premium services.

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And recall that not long ago the premium selling prices of prestigious retailers were immune to inroads from e-tailing.

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There are e-books selling for 99 cents and others at premium prices.

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It was an attractive e-commerce idea: Customers were affluent, the industry was fragmented and premium brands were still not available at supermarkets or discount chains.

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In addition to AOL original content from properties like Moviefone, Engadget and HuffPost Entertainment, the app will feature high-definition videos from the AOL On Network's premium content partners like Reuters, AP, BBC, Newsy, Entertainment Tonight, Sugar, E!

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The basic, Office 365 Home Premium subscription package also comes with PowerPoint for presentations, OneNote for note-taking, Outlook for e-mail, Publisher for desktop publishing and Access for databases.

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