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BMG spokesperson Nathaniel Brown told the E-Commerce Times that BMG is working on putting together a network of syndication partners and that those partners will be revealed in a "subsequent announcement." Brown declined to reveal the financial details of any syndication arra...

Cissy Hartley, the founder of Writerspace.com, told the E-Commerce Times that writers are expressing "various degrees of outrage and annoyance" over the prominence that Amazon is giving to used book listings on the Web site. In addition to the revenue issue, there are also re...

Liz Paul, who heads Greenfield Online Mexico in Mexico City, told the E-Commerce Times that convenience, availability, and the larger variety of products available online are the drivers behind Mexico's e-commerce growth. Mexican Internet users "are not having a negative expe...

However, analyst Mark Maheny of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter told the E-Commerce Times in October that Amazon "will be very clearly on a path for profitability" in the coming months ...

"The issue is that NTT owns the last mile of cable from exchanges into consumers' homes," Dan Tochen, a researcher specializing in Japanese e-business at TK Associates International TK Associates International, told the E-Commerce Times. "Other ISDN/DSL operators need to make an arrangement with NTT, which is legally possible but in practice has been difficult for them to do." ...

"He screwed up," PSINet spokesperson Robert Leahy told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"Online buying is an evolution," Geoff Ramsey, the author of the report, told the E-Commerce Times. "We're approaching one level of saturation in Internet users. The [increase in online buying] will come from those who are already online but haven't purchased before, or those who've made one or two purchases and will purchase more frequently." ...

Although the survey asked what changes B2C companies would be making before spring 2001, IDC researcher Molly Upton told the E-Commerce Times that many of the companies surveyed said they hope to put the finishing touches on improved customer service features in time for the holiday season.

"The results are startling in that the hype around the Internet is that it's male dominated and younger oriented," Ann Marshman, vice president for Gartner's e-Business Services, told the E-Commerce Times. ...

JudaicaStore is the e-commerce component of JewishWeb, a content and networking site. JudaicaStore and JewishWeb CEO and president Raphi Salem told the E-Commerce Times that both sites evolved from Salem Global Internet, the Web design firm he started a year earlier with a $100,000 bank loan.

In an interview with the E-Commerce Times, Tony Uphoff, president and CEO of Beliefnet, Inc., said that religious travel is a $10 billion market. ...

Although the stated purpose of the SSTP is to "simplify and modernize sales and use tax administration," representatives from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Electronic Commerce Association (ECA) told the E-Commerce Times that their organizations believe that all online sales will eventually be subject to sales tax.

"Grocery shopping is a deeply entrenched behavior," Reiss told the E-Commerce Times. "It's natural that consumers are slow to adopt. But if they can hang on, the companies that are trying hard to crack the nut will be the ones that reap the benefits." ...

"Opponents and proponents tend to link the two together," Larry Good, senior vice president of the Electronic Commerce Association, told the E-Commerce Times. "Proponents of the moratorium like to call it a ban on any taxes on e-commerce. Opponents like to say that there's no reason there should be any favorable tax treatment for online merchants." ...

Although the survey asked what changes B2C companies would be making before spring 2001, IDC researcher Molly Upton told the E-Commerce Times that many of the companies surveyed said they hope to put the finishing touches on improved customer service features in time for the holiday season.

"The decline was primarily due to a lower transaction value," Tony Gikas, senior e-consumer analyst for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, told the E-Commerce Times. "During the month the number of online shoppers and buyers was actually up, but the median purchase amount was down 16.7 percent. There was potentially less time spent making purchases and fewer big ticket purchases, such as in the travel sector, and traffic is generally softer this time of year." ...

"We've reached a point where many of the business-to-commerce retailers have been pointing to this holiday season [for when] they would turn the corner," company CEO John A. Challenger told the E-Commerce Times. To boost their financial prospects, e-tailers must hone their de...

"This is an issue we're all grappling with," Deborah Pierce, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times. "Public records are the hallmark of an open government. It's beyond an authority issue. Maybe we need to redefine exactly what a public record is." ...

"B2B is still largely out of favor, but getting primed for a bounce-back by the end of the year, Nichols told the E-Commerce Times in September. "Unlike B2C, the B2B sector has a chance for recovery. It's a relatively young market, and many promising companies haven't gone public yet. It's too early for a shakeout," he said...

"We were quite frankly surprised by the number of businesses that expressed the fact that they were now sourcing online," Grant Smith, senior analyst for Yankee's Latin American Internet strategy planning service, told the E-Commerce Times. ...