Amazon Flexible Payment Service (AFPS)
Payment option on Amazon.com that enables e-commerce subscriptions, donations, market place and micropayment applications. It is simply payment solution to meet unique business requirements.
Amazon Simple Pay (ASP)
Complete e-commerce solution that offers purchase and check out experience for business customers with added protection. This features tools for business to manage their shipping charges, sales tax, promo, cancellations and other related.
Attention Economics
Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems (Wikipedia).
Business Model
A description of how the flow of goods and services moves between producers and consumers.
Clickstream
Data collected and generated every time a online user clicks on webpage.
Disintermediation
This process removes intermediaries or middlemen from the supply chain.
Gift Economy
n the social sciences, a gift economy (or gift culture) is a society where valuable goods and services are regularly given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards (i.e. no formal quid pro quo exists). Ideally, simultaneous or recurring giving serves to circulate and redistribute valuables within the community. The organization of a gift economy stands in contrast to a barter economy or a market economy. Informal custom governs exchanges, rather than an explicit exchange of goods or services for money or some other commodity (Wikipedia).
Information goods
Goods that can be transported electronically.
Internet commerce
The buying and selling of products or services and the transfer of funds over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks, (Wikipedia).
Kindle Store
Free worldwide wireless delivery of thousands of books that are available on Amazon.com (unique electronic delivery service). Also It is a Digital Text Platform’s self-publishing tool that will let business to upload and format its book for sale in the ‘Kindle Store’.
Knowledge
Expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education.
Knowledge Economy
Refers to the use of knowledge technologies (such as knowledge engineering and knowledge management) to produce economic benefits as well as job creation. The phrase was popularized if not invented by Peter Drucker as the title of Chapter 12 in his book The Age of Discontinuity (Wikipedia).
Market space
The electronic marketplace.
Network Economy
One term used to describe the emerging economic order within the information society is the Network economy. This stems from a key attribute - products and services are created and value is added through social networks operating on large or global scales. This is in sharp contrast to industrial-era economies, in which ownership of physical or intellectual property stems from its development by a single enterprise. Business models for capturing ownership rights for value embedded in products and services created by social networks are being explored (Wikipedia).
Physical goods
Goods that require transportation by a logistics provider.
Supply chain
A supply chain, is a set of businesses directly linked by one or more of the upstream and downstream flows of products, services, finances, and information from a source to a customer, (Mentzer et al., 2001).
WebStore
Developer's web service offered through Amazon.com. It will provide solutions for developers and their organisations to leverage Amazon.com’s technology infrastructure. According to Amazon.com the ‘WebStore’ will be backed by the same robust technology that powers Amazon.com, promising reliable, powerful and secure solution for online business needs.
