The growth of the internet has a huge impact upon UK Book Industry. A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side, and within protective covers. Each side of a sheet is called a page, and a single sheet within a book may be called a leaf. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book. The high street book retailer is a "thing of the past!" In this piece of writing it will analyse the factors that effect book industry and if high street book retailer would survive when compared to E-commerce.
The meaning of the term electronic commerce has changed over the last 30 years. Firstly electronic commerce meant the facilitation of commercial transactions electronically, usually using technology like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), where both were introduced in the late 1970s. In the 1970s and 1980s, this would also have involved information analysis. The growth and acceptance of credit cards. However, from the 1990s onwards, this would include enterprise resource planning systems (ERP). Today, it encompasses a very wide range of business activities and processes, from e-banking to offshore manufacturing to e-logistics. The ever growing dependence of modern industries on electronically enabled business processes gave impetus to the growth and development of supporting systems, including backend systems, applications and middleware. Examples are broadband and fiber-optic networks, supply-chain management software, customer relationship management software and financial accounting software. The emergence of e-commerce also significantly lowered barriers to entry in the selling of many types of goods; ...