eCommerce in Publishing: Introduction

What publishers need to know about this growing revenue stream and what it means for them

Damian Radcliffe
Damian Radcliffe
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3 min readMay 10, 2022

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This is an excerpt from the free-to-download report, eCommerce in Publishing: Trends & Strategies, written by me for What’s New In Publishing (WNiP).

Over the coming days, I’ll be publishing this report, with each chapter as a standalone article.

“eCommerce, also known as electronic commerce or internet commerce, refers to the buying and selling of goods or services using the internet, and the transfer of money and data to execute these transactions.

eCommerce is often used to refer to the sale of physical products online, but it can also describe any kind of commercial transaction that is facilitated through the internet. “ — Definition via Shopify

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Damian Radcliffe
Damian Radcliffe

Chambers Professor in Journalism @uoregon | Fellow @TowCenter @CardiffJomec @theRSAorg | Write @wnip @ZDNet | Host Demystifying Media podcast https://itunes.app