Amazon Book Selling

Amazon Book Selling
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1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of selling books and goods over the internet?
One of the advantage of selling books and other goods on the internet is to eliminate costs associated with maintaining of retail stores. This could be labour and rental costs. Secondly, the other advantage is the direct contact with the customer through internet. (Korper & Ellis, 2001). Trading through internet has the possibility of removing geographical barriers which then allows customers to shop at any place and at any time. As Amazon does not arrange books or determine customer demands in specific areas, it becomes much easier and comfortable to search for books over internet. Most online shops that offer these services provide delivery of books and payments are made on online avenues (Marcial, 2007). This means that shopping today is less time consuming, and flexible to customer’s needs.
Online shopping provide the customer with opportunity to vividly view all the information about the book including books reviews and books related to the topics searched. This gives them a chance for more information than just looking at the single book in a retail shop. In addition. online shopping features people who bought the book before making a connection allowing groups of people with similar preferences to connect and share their preferences about other new products they preferred (Schepp & Schepp & Richardson, 2009). This expands possibilities and advantages for both the Amazon and its customers.
However, there are some disadvantages associated with online sales. One of them is the security of online payments as it is becoming problem preventing many people from buying online. There is no totally secure system which makes customers confuse if it is safe to reveal their payment data on the internet. Delay in books delivery of books on time is also a major problem caused by different facto...