Word: cdnow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attacking from the Internet is Amazon.com the Web superstore that began selling toys this summer and plans to do to eToys what it did to CDnow in the online music business--knock it out of the top spot. Attacking from the street as well as from cyberspace are the classic "bricks-and-mortar" retailers Toys "R" Us and KB Toys, which were written off as Net players after the last holiday season but this year have developed online offshoots...
...three new sites, iCanBuy.com DoughNET.com and RocketCash.com partner with online merchants--such as cdnow, Fogdog Sports and teen clothier Delia's--that are popular with young people. First, parents register, provide credit-card information and indicate how much their children can spend; then the kids get to shop...
...challenges. Its principal foe, Barnes & Noble, recently purchased the Ingram Book Group, the largest U.S. wholesaler to book retailers, including Amazon. This follows Barnes & Noble's sale of 50% of its website operations to giant publisher Bertelsmann AG, creating a potent synergy. Meanwhile, nine other major Web retailers, including CDnow and eToys, recently banded together in an online mall called ShopperConnection to better compete with Amazon. Well-funded upstarts like Buy.com keep coming. And the first "electronic books"--or flat displays that let you read a book on a screen--are just hitting the market...
...While CDnow www.cdnow.com and Tunes.com www.tunes.com are loaded with features and a pleasure to browse, sites like BestBuy www.bestbuy.com and CD Universe www.cduniverse.com give you the bare bones at low prices. And if you don't mind buying used, SecondSpin www.secondspin.com is an audio- and videophile's dream. It will give you a decent price for trade...
...years ago, but for the past three years he has been doing the birthday and holiday shopping for his large family on the computer, which he operates by poking the keyboard with a stick he holds in his mouth. He buys clothes from Lands' End online, CDs from CDnow and books from Amazon.com "It makes me feel independent," he explains...