Boston Public Library
Electronic Commerce Resource List
Booklists for Adults

The following books are to be found at the BPL libraries. If you cannot locate them on the shelves, request them through the catalog or ask a librarian for assistance. 

Digital capitalism: networking the global market system / Dan Schiller. MIT Press.
Call Number: HM221 .S355 1999.

Essential business tactics for the Net / Larry Chase. New York: Wiley. Call Number: HD30.37.C37 1998

Electronic Commerce: a manager’s guide / Ravi Kalakota, Andrew B. Winston. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley . Call Number: HF5548.32 .K35 1997

HyperWars: eleven strategies for survival and profit in the ear of online business / Bruce Judson with Kate Kelly. New York: Scribner. Call Number: HD30.37 .J83 1999.

Net profit: how to invest and compete in the real world on Internet business / Peter S. Cohan. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1999. Call Number: HD9696.8.A2 C64 1999

Net worth: shaping markets when customers make the rules / John Hagel III and Marc Singer. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Call Number: HF5415.124 .H33 1999.

On-line profits: a manager’s guide to electronic commerce / Peter G.W. Keen and Craigg Balance. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press. Call Number: HF5548.32 .K43 1997.

101 successful businesses you can start on the Internet / Daniel Janal. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Call Number: HF5548.32 .J36 1997


The following sources, both paper copy and websites, offer daily and weekly information on Ecommerce. Because events in the industry change so quickly, printed material is often out of date before it arrives: therefore, websites are recommended.

Internet Statistics

News

Players

  • Red Herring (http://www.redherring.com/) Info on companies involved in ecommerce. See "Companies, Industries, and People". Paper copy of this magazine is available on newsstands.
  • CorpTech (http://www.corptech.com/) Listing of 50,000 private and public U.S. companies in the technology field.
  • Doing Business on the Web The eCommerce Guidebook (http://www.online-commerce.com/) Educational site, created by Net Nation Communications. Provides a step-by-step guide to the process of becoming ecommerce enabled.
  • Electronic Commerce Research Center (http://www.cio.com/forums/ec/) Created by CIO Magazine, examines current state and future directions of conducting commerce on the Net. Articles are annotated and indexed by subjects.
  • EcProfessional (http://www.globeset.com/Commerce/) A site created by Globeset, software consulting firm, for professionals involved in the business.
  • EMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com/) Information and resources on how to build, promote, and maintain a successful Website.
  • EBoz: Your Guide to Creating Successful Website (http://www.eboz.com/) Provides resources and tools necessary for creating ecommerce Web sites. Helpful links to directories, articles, advice, tools, and shopping.

Web Advertising/Marketing

  • E-Marketing digest ( http://www.webbers.com/emark/) Educational forum for live chat, or digest version providing news, info, tips, source awareness.
  • Internet Advertising Resource Guide (http://www.admedia.org/) A professor at Michigan State University offers info on Internet advertising introduction, planning, development, management, research, and teaching.
  • Web Marketing Info Center ( http://www.wilsonweb.com/commerce/) Provides numerous links to articles and resources for special issues pertaining to ecommerce.

Web Dictionaries (Webopedias)   - Look here for terms you are unfamiliar with.

Government Sites

Journals

For more information see also Bibliographies & Guides to our Collections compiled by the Kirstein Business Library.

This selected list was compiled by:  Diane d'Almeida, General Library, Adult Services. Updated by Serena Enger, General Library, Adult Services, 2003.