CNET: Holidays push online shopping toward mainstream

ClickZ published a review of this year's e-commerce trends in light of the holiday season, including the higher proportion of women shoppers and a fleshing out of additional categories, like health and beauty products.

"These are the new stars of online retail, and books and computer hardware are shining less brightly than they have in the past."

CNET also points out that more brick-and-mortar stores are offering store pickup for purchased merchandise. Sears claims that 40 percent of its online sales are picked up in one of its stores.