UPDATE: The Internet and American Business is now out in paperback

Winner of the 2008 Choice Magazine award for outstanding academic title.

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It’s finally here! The Internet and American Business has arrived via MIT Press. From the jacket blub: “Tracing the impact of the commercialized Internet since 1995 on American business and society, the book describes new business models, new companies and adjustments by established companies, the rise of e-commerce, and community building; it considers dot-com busts and difficulties encountered by traditional industries; and it discusses such newly created problems as copyright violations associated with music file-sharing and the proliferation of Internet pornography.”

My contribution is called Resistance is Futile? Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet It explains why a series of industries – including healthcare and higher education – have not yet been radically transformed by the Internet.