Etail research from B2C models to customer intimacy--part 2.(Editorial Preface)

This is the next to the first of two special issues that focus upon the end user of ecommerce processe and practices--the etail consumer--and the websites they visit. Despite the dot.com fallout, many etailers continue to thrive and of recent origin ones are still being born. fresh knowledge about the etailer-customer relationship is being discovered. We continue to learn about the factors that lead to succes in this of recent origin frontier. The authors of articles in this special issue evaluate the relationship between consumer and the etailers they visit online in terminuss of searching for online information, trust