Assignment
Orientation PPT
Executive Keys to Success

• Pew Internet: Online Shopping (Report, February 13, 2008)
• Internet World Stats- An International website featuring up to date world Internet Usage, Population Statistics and Internet Market Research Data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions.
  • Net Usage Index for Retail - Web site traffic to retail sites by world regions
  • Internet Traffic Report - Monitors the flow of data around the world
• Top 500 guide: profiles and statistics of America's 500 largest retial web sites ranked by annual sales.
  Ref. HF 5548.325 U5 T6 2007 ( On Course Reserve / ask at Circulation Desk)
  
• Plunkett's E-commerce & Internet Business Almanac 2008
  Ref. HF 5548.32 P59 2008
  

Use the following resources to gather information on Amazon.com:

• Investext Reports:
  Use this link to run a formatted search in LexisNexis Academic Business/ Company Dossier to retrieve results for current analyst reports on Amazon.com. After selecting the desired document link, be sure to click on the (Retrieve Full Report - pdf) link in the document record to retrieve the full-text of the report.
• Datamonitor Reports:
  Linked from Business Source Complete (Ebscohost), click on
  • Company Profile: Amazon.com (Jun. 8, 2007)
  • Internet Retail Industry Profile: Global (Apr2007)
  • Internet & Catalog Retail Industry Profile: Global (Mar2007)
• ICON Group:
  Linked from Business Source Complete (Ebscohost), click on
  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Book, Periodical, and Music Stores (2005)

• Association of American Publishers
  • Industry Statistics 2007
• National Retail Federation
  • Retail Industry Research

Digital Marketing & Media Fact Pack
Issued as a supplement to Advertising Age, this April 23, 2007 report provides data on the digital world.

USB storage device or Datastor
It is highly recommended that students use a USB storage device (memory stick/flash drive) or Datastor2 for saving their presentation documents.