Thanks Druid; I found it, also noticed BKS went down on that news,
I do not like Barnes and Noble to start with, and feel they could
come up before the SEC before long on anti-trust voilations,
not just because of the AOL deal , but a lot of other deals
were they force collage book stores into an exclusive deal with
them in order to get discounts. Like if you don't give us an
Exclusive we don't give you discounts, and they are so huge
That with out the discounts, the poor collage is over a barrel,
On top of that if AOL is granting an exclusive to BN.how does
That give the poor AOL user any advantage.it don't. Because
On line amazon.com is in my opinion the better of the two.and
Have many links and a big head start with online book selling.
This also is B&N trying to farm out to someone the creating of
of an online system and speaks poorly of their abilty to create
a online system that's as good as amazons..They just don't have
The talent.and are resorting to what looks like desperation,
AOL has gotten by so far useing a made over BBS system and calling
it a ISP..Some day people will catch on that it's a piece of
Junk.
In fact again AOL makes a move that is not in the best
interest of their subsciber base, making it more difficult
to have an option of other book sellers.
Any way Barns and Noble can be had on line..with less hassel and faster via a regular ISP conection than the AOL interface, which is
Ungodly slow by comparison.
Unless B&N offers AOL subs discounts that others can't get,
I don't see any advantage at all, and if they go to that
It's like shooting themselves in the foot.for 40M over
four years the little drip in the bucket each year may have opened them selves up to some serious action by the SEC..which could cost them much more down the road. To top it off I bet B&N has some
Tough contengences tied to the payments, that was omited from the
artical..Another likley law suite in the making.
Jim |
