According to the U.S. Census Bureau E –Stats, business-to-consumer (B-to-C) online sales (goods and services) totaled $288 billion in 2008. But this is only part of online sales; businesses also sell to other businesses.
Business-to business (B-to-B) e-commerce has increased dramatically over the past few years as businesses find new, effective, cost efficient ways to use tine internet. B-to-B e-commerce more than doubled between 2003 and 2008, and today, in 2010, accounts for about 40 percent of all U.S. manufacturing shipments. The U.S. Census E-Stats reports that B-to-B e-commerce total $3.4 trillion in 2008. That represents 92.2 percent of all e-commerce in the U.S.
Visit the Census Bureau’s website at: http://www.census.gov/econ/estats/2008/2008reportfinal.pdf to get information on business-to-consumer service revenues.
