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To: waverider1 who wrote (6053)	3/23/1999 8:02:00 AM
From: Philip Geiger	Respond to of 11417

"New evidence that the rise of electronic commerce is a wave..." So begins an article in the yesterday's NY Times of a recent study conducted by Odyssey on e-commerce. Among the highlights: a fourfold increase in e-commerce in just the last four months, to a total of 56 million purchases. (No, the Times doesn't indicate how much of that was digital content.) The percentage of households on line jumped to 33% from 23% from a year earlier; 47% of those made an on-line purchase in the last 6 months, up from 30% a year ago. Average number of purchases is 3.7 compared with 1.7 from 6 months ago. Much of the increase is attributed to aggressive marketing of e-commerce by AOL. Philip Geiger