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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (38472)	2/6/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (3) of 164684

The problem with shipping for E-tailers is that it will ALWAYS cost more to ship 1000 items to different customers than it will to ship 1000 items to 1 customer. That's the first rule of shipping, in case you hadn't noticed. If this is not clear to you guys yet- it will always cost more for amazon to ship 1000 books all over the country individually, than it will for barnes and noble to ship a truckload of 1000 books to 1 location. It's basic physics. Economic slight of hand doesnt even enter into the equation! (sorry covey) Take away the sales tax that isnt currently collected by the feds, and you find another catalog sales company. Not worth 20 billion. No way.

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