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E-marketplace
Literally the “electronic market place”, this term describes a virtual marketplace where real products and services are traded, as opposed to the electronic marketspace. Marketplaces are characterized by ownership (supplier managed, buyer managed, market markers), the trading model (how buyers and sellers interact), the pricing model (how the price of the goods is established), the revenue model (as a source of revenue for the same marketplace).
