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According to the textbooks, value-added is "the amount of value added to a product by each stage of its production"--in other words, the amount of value added as wood metamorphoses from tree to lumber to house, or as oil is refined from its captured state into petrochemicals, and thence, perhaps, into plastic.
Take, for instance, the oil industry: Marketplaces for petrochemicals can be established online between businesses, but it would be illogical for a Web company to try and sell gasoline to a single consumer pumping gas.