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Author: Ted Haynes
Title: The Electronic Commerce Dictionary
Subtitle: The definitive terms for doing business on the Information Superhighway
Publication Date: August 1995
Retail Price: $11.95
Pages: 128
ISBN Number: 0-9646506-0-6
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number preassigned: 95-69169
Format: Paperback only 5.5" x 8.5"
Publisher: The Robleda Company
Edition: First
Contents:
- Introduction
- Dictionary (over 900 words and acronyms)
- Electronic Commerce World Wide Web Sites and Their URL Addresses
Illustrations: All text.
World rights: Held by the author
Available to bookstores from: Baker & Taylor
This new lexicon gives you the foundation for all forms of electronic commerce.
- Commerce over the World Wide Web
- Internet payment systems
- The National Information Infrastructure
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
- Public Key Cryptography
- Smart cards and digital cash
- Computer and network security for commerce
- Marketing through electronic media
Includes over 900 terms and acronyms, over 200 Web site addresses.
Some terms defined: digital signature, fire wall, automated
clearing house, Secure HTTP, SSL, spamming, look-to-buy ratio, cell relay, copyleft, Core
Internet, EDI VAN, electronic funds transfer, authentication, customer initiated entry,
I-Way, Internet presence, key escrow, one-to-one marketing, Pretty Good Privacy,
certification authority, public key cryptography, trust hierarchy.
Extensively cross referenced
Definitions are based on usage in both general and technical
sources - books, government publications, magazines, seminar materials, over two hundred
World Wide Web sites and FTP servers, and the author's years of experience in business and
data communications. Each term is explained in words understandable to the modestly
computer literate individual. Definitions are extensively cross referenced so the reader
may pursue ideas as far as desired and gain a comprehensive understanding of any area.
Where appropriate, specific products and companies are identified.
Updates available on the World Wide Web
The dictionary will remain a fundamental resource as the
field of electronic commerce develops. Updates to the dictionary (but not the original
dictionary) will be available via the World Wide Web at http://www.tedhaynes.com/haynes1/newterms.html.
American Library Association, Booklist, November 1, 1995 - OK, so you're not a
hacker or a cracker...maybe you're a newbie or a surfer...or maybe you just want to look
for opportunities to profit from electronic commerce. Whichever, this dictionary is for
you. Compiled by a consultant with 15 years in data communications and business
management, The Electronic Commerce Dictionary strives to fulfill the promise of
its subtitle. Electronic Commerce is defined by the author as "the conducting of
business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. As most
restrictively defined, electronic commerce is the buying and selling of goods and
services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications. But EC also includes
all inter-company and intra-company functions...that enable commerce and utilize E-mail,
EDI, file transfer, Fax, video conferencing, workflow or interaction with a remote
computer (including the use of the World Wide Web)." More than 900 terms and acronyms
are defined, including more than 200 Web electronic-commerce reference sites. The sites
are listed with Internet addresses. Included are definitions for many topics within the
field of electronic commerce: blind entry, clearings, demand deposit account,
electronic signature, and information appliance. Here, too, are acronyms: I-WAY, IAB,
IANA, ICMP. There are also protocols, those rules and guidelines that determine how
computers on a network communicate with one another, such as DSS (Digital Signature
Standard) and MNP5 (Microcom Networking Protocol, Class Five). Electronic commerce is
nothing short of a revolution in business. Haynes succeeds in making the buzzwords,
abbreviations, and acronyms of this emerging field understandable to anyone with modest
computer literacy. Recommended for academic and public libraries of all sizes. Updates to
the book, including terms created after its publication, will be published on the
Electronic Commerce Dictionary Web site at http://www.tedhaynes.com.
Information Entrepreneur - If reading about computers and electronic commerce
tends to leave you dazed and wishing someone would at least sell you a vowel, you might
find some relief in The Electronic Commerce Dictionary ($11.95) by Ted Haynes. It
defines more than 900 terms and acronyms, including HDLC (high-level data link control),
EINet (Enterprise Integration Network), IPSP (Internet Protocol Security Protocol) and
ladles of similar alphabet soup.
The Midwest Book Review "Reviewer's Bookwatch" - There are plenty of
Internet books on the market, but this is different: it's the first which covers
electronic commerce, covering such basic questions as whether it's safe to send a credit
card over the Web, how to understand industry jargon, and where to integrate products.
This is a dictionary of terms, but provides much background detail on Internet operations.
Bill Frezza, Interactive Age Magazine - Any new and rapidly growing technical
field seems to generate a proliferation of jargon that can easily overwhelm the newcomer,
causing them to hang back just when it's time to jump in. The Electronic Commerce
Dictionary is the perfect compendium for both the networking neophyte and the practiced
pundit.
Michael Killen, President Killen & Associates, Inc. - When you can define
your terms clearly you eliminate confusion. "The Electronic Commerce Dictionary"
provides the definitions that everyone who plans to participate in the emerging Internet,
cyberspace, and on-line environments needs to think clearly.
Dave Darnell, Founder of Systrends, Inc. and of the Arizona EC/EDI Roundtable -
Ted Haynes' "The Electronic Commerce Dictionary" is comprehensive and complete.
It is a great tool for the novice or the expert in trying to decipher the latest technical
terminology and wave of acronyms that is accompanying the recent massive expansion and
focus on the "information superhighway". "Techno-babble" is rampant
and Ted Haynes' book is a guiding light.
 Ted Haynes is a
business consultant with Haynes & Company in Menlo Park, California, whose clients
include leading high tech companies. His experience includes nine years in
telecommunications, seven years in data communications, seven years in consumer marketing,
and four years marketing PC's. He holds a graduate degree in business from Stanford
University. Mr. Haynes is a member of the Professional and Technical Consultants
Association (PATCA) and Smart Valley Inc.
For fastest delivery order the book over the phone from Opamp Technical Books at
1-800-468-4322. You can also order the book over the Web from fatbrain.com
or Amazon Books, Inc.
At your bookstore you will find your copy of The Electronic Commerce Dictionary in the
communications section, with the books on the Internet. The book is available at or can be
ordered through Barnes and Noble, Borders, Computer Literacy Bookshops, Kepler's, and
other fine bookstores. If your bookstore doesn't have the book in stock, they can order it
from Baker and Taylor, a major book wholesaler. The ISBN number, which will help with the
order, is 0-9646506-0-6.
Many good libraries have copies of The Electronic Commerce
Dictionary in their collection.
The publisher, The Robleda Company, does not handle direct orders from individuals. The
publisher will accept company orders for twenty or more copies. The Robleda Company can be
reached at 650-368-4552.
Copyright (c) 1995 - 2006 by Ted Haynes |
