Instead, most suppliers have meekly caved in to their old-line distributors and refused to sell online.
For all sorts of reasons, businesses are more likely than consumers to buy and sell online.
Policy makers need to ensure that tax codes and other regulations do not disadvantage physical booksellers compared to those who sell online.
It allows smaller retailers to sell online without investing heavily in the software needed to take secure credit and debit card payments.
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They're also concerned about Sony's plans to sell online video downloads.
Alternatively, content owners can choose to let YouTube sell online advertisements that appear next to or on top of the videos while they play.
Most retailers now sell online, giving shoppers unprecedented choice. eBusiness executives must follow a path of optimization and innovation as they fight to remain competitive.
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Shoes and clothes (will they fit?) are hard to sell online.
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Despite the privacy lapses that are occurring in the retailer rush to sell online, the risk is still minimal to most consumers, according to Kerley at Jupiter.
More than 90% of manufacturers don't sell online, GartnerGroup estimates.
They would sell online initially and wholesale to stores later.
As the New York Times pointed out earlier this month, as more legitimate galleries and auction houses sell art online, it has become easier for less scrupulous sellers to sell unauthorized reproductions or even forgeries of work by famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore.
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Alaska Airlines was the first U.S. carrier to sell tickets online and to allow online check-in.
All of these services sell tickets online, so plan and book your travel in advance.
WePay helps people sell tickets to events, send invoices, sell items online, and accept donations online.
The patent ( here is a good summary of it) essentially describes how these companies sell music online.
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Tesco, the supermarket chain, this month started to use its customers' shopping histories to sell targeted online advertising.
Alaska was the first U.S. carrier to sell tickets online, in 1995, to begin cutting down on travel-agent fees.
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The merchants range from those who sell only online to brick-and-mortar stores starting to move online, to those who do both.
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Just about anyone can sell products online, and its only getting easier.
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We were the first folks to sell textbooks online 15 years ago.
Mr. Bezos also disputed the notion that his company plays by a different set of rules from brick and mortar retailers that sell goods online.
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We sell kits online and deliver via one of our 8 regional distribution centers and deliver to any residential address in the US in just 1-2 business days.
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As the number of people investing on the stock market via the internet increases in America, investors can buy and sell shares online as easily as ordering a pizza.
Even for a company like mine that doesn't sell products online, Lindland advises a landing page should have a big CALL US button on it with an 800 number.
For the past six years, the company has relied on a partnership with Amazon to sell books online, a practice that hasn't done much for profits or for building brand loyalty.
So far, Eventbrite has made great strides, making it easy to promote events through social networking, sell tickets online and even scan tickets on-site with their iPhone and Android application.
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Earlier this year, shops in Australia were forced to restrict sales of infant formula, as Chinese customers and tourists bought them in bulk to send them home or to sell them online.
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