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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (19970)	10/5/1998 7:40:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) of 164684

Bezos's strategy seems to be a preemptive strike against large book retailers who are developing Web sites of their own and who may have an edge over Amazon.com in shipping directly from their stores. "Bezos would need the flexibility to step up his own delivery service and not rely totally on third parties," observes Jay M. Tenenbaum, chairman of the trade association CommerceNet, which represents more than 500 on-line retailers. --J.M. James, The "advantage" of the so called Amazon business model was no need to carry inventory. I am really missing the advantage now. Glenn

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