Since the first Hot Shops List in May 2006 there have been 17 new entrants, 13 have moved up, 17 slipped down the table and just three retailers have remained static

The new AmazonEncore service seeks out top-rated but low-selling books from emerging writers and then works with the author to republish and market them online and in bookstores

The new digital publication incorporates video content within a familiar magazine layout

The UK’s largest online appliance retailer is to pool together customer reviews from its nine different sites in a bid to “flush out bad products which have recurring problems”

Further confirmation of the power of online reviews has come this week via a new survey from Ciao, which describes its findings as ‘the death of the salesman’

… or is that “profit per engagement second”? Video post on the argument – looking forward to comments, rebuttals and improved ideas.

The bookseller says it was looking for a highly scalable platform capable of supporting the company’s growth plans and the anticipated increase in online purchasing from customers

The analytics specialist’s new model offers “the first standardised method of evaluating and improving the measurement of web sites, SEM, social media, email and other digital marketing programs”

But online retailers going out of business will be few and far between, says Verdict…

New research from the US has found that less than 5% of social media users says they regularly turn to these sites for guidance on purchasing decisions

When children find an item they want, BillMyParents sends parents a notification by email or text that lets the parent review the selection and then either pay for an item they approve of or deny the purchase.

A new white paper from ChannelAdvisor takes a look at where the online retail opportunities are in 2009 — and offers ten quick tips for getting ahead in the recession

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School has accredited our InternetRetailing programme as a full Masters programme, leading to an MSc in Internet Retailing in 30 months.

Ecommerce leaders are confident of expanding their teams and even receiving pay rises this year, a new survey has found

Email navigation differs radically from website navigation, say the authors of a new US report, and most marketers find it drives more clicks than the main content of the email

Coloured Rocks’ Diamond Detonation viral game has been played 132,000 times and players spend an average time of four minutes with the game

A new deal with Clash Media is designed to provide the catalogue retailer with more than 20,000 new consumer leads a month

A new research report from SAP and the British Retail Consortium has identified the customer experience as the key to successfully riding out the recession, and found there are no signs of retailers slowing down on planning for the future

56% of respondents to a new survey say security is the most important factor when shopping online, whilst 31% believe cost to be the most important criteria

Traffic to Marks and Spencer’s website grew by 36% over the last year and it now has 5.3% of the UK online clothing market, the retailer revealed in its final results for the year to 28 March 2009