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To: jeff nightbyrd who wrote (196)9/11/1997 8:18:00 PM
From: John Fedak   of 164684
 
The problem is that Amazon must often wait to order books from the publisher. (If they have them in stock, they can usually ship them right away).

My question is: What keeps the publishers from setting up their own WWW sites and removing the middleman?

-fedak
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