Economist

Ken Doctor

The death of shopping distance and its coming impact on news publishers

It’s time to take the “e” out of e-commerce. We added that vowel to explain the digital mediation of buying and selling, some 20 years ago. It seemed so cool and so novel that governments granted e-commerce a short-term tax exemption. The idea: spur this groovy new way of doing business. Flash forward to the [...]

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