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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (29284)	12/8/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) of 164684

I wonder if the move by Amazon to become an "e-portal" and moving away from selling books and physical products might have anything to do with the Walmart lawsuit? Sounds like Bezos is relying on some of his former job skills as a hedge fund manager and hedging his bets. By that I mean what happens if Walmart wins the suit and Amazon has to scrap its entire order procurement and fufillment system? Obviously this would be terrible for their stock price, unless he had a fallback plan. The "e-portal" gives him that fallback. No inventory, no shipping, just collecting a percentage of other e-tailer's traffic.

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