Dickeson--Where Does e-Commerce Fit?

To possibly get more complete information from the Internet sites of the cyberbrokers, one must register with the broker and get a secret password. Since I'm neither a prospective buyer nor seller of printing, I didn't register. Should I have registered?

No More Middlemen
Lately success in e-commerce appears to be related to disintermediation—eliminating the "middlemen" no longer necessary in cyberland. It's also called "supply chain integration." Another facet of this trend is so-called "partnering." Partnering amounts to increasing the intensity of the relationship between customers and suppliers. Customers put more of their eggs of supply in fewer baskets. Call it supply integration, or partnering, or both—it results in reduced inventories and a more focused attentiveness to customer needs. Are the Noosh, et al. entities swimming upstream—against the current of these trends?