Introduction to Electronic Commerce

I bought this for a course that required it, but it was hardly used in the course material. What I did read was very helpful.

Positive: The book is in better condition than I imagined. Good job with the description! Negative: This book's content is slightly out dated.

Great text. I really did well in this class thanks to this text. Laid out extremely well when compared to others.

The teacher I have for this class really likes to pick bad books, but this one is the ultimate bad textbook. Here are some of the things I've noticed: -It is not up to date. -There are review questions that refer to things that are not in the book. -There are review questions that refer to the online material but do not indicate that you have to look in the online material to find the answers. -Also on the subject of online material, sometimes the index references online material that doesn't exist. For example, it told me to look at case 1.25 in the online material, but chapter 1 only has cases up to 1.15 (which is the case where I found the information I was looking for). -There is too much emphasis on virtual worlds. -The index is virtually useless. There have been far more times when I looked for something in the index and couldn't find it than there were times that I actually did find what I was looking for. -Also on the subject of the index, I found a reference in it to "Hewitt-Packard." To make sure there wasn't, in fact, a company called Hewitt-Packard, I went to the page the index said to go to. My suspicions were confirmed that it was referencing the real company Hewlett-Packard. If you don't have to get this book, please don't. If you're a teacher reading this, please choose a different textbook for your classes.

This book seems to have outdated information. It states that MySpace is the largest social networking site in the world! Are you kidding me!! Facebook has been the top dog for years which makes me question when this book was written, or last updated.

I needed this book for a class I just finished. There is a lot of good and relevant information provided, especially for those who aren't very tech-savvy. Because the technology world is so fast-paced, much of the material is out of date already. A lot of the research cited is from 2007-2009 or thereabouts. There was at least one erroneous "fact" presented, which was in the chapter about electronic payments. The text claims that "100 million adults in the US are unbanked." That is, they do not have bank accounts, debit cards, or credit cards. This is obviously false. I did a web search, and according to the World Bank, the number is more like 12-15 million. Anyway, the book is OK for the most part. If you need it for a class, go ahead and get it. If not, I'm sure there are much more current and relevant e-commerce books out there.

Used the book for school and passed. Way better than buying from the school and cheaper.

Informative, well composed and educational. If you are in business this book is a must read!