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To: Roger Bodine who wrote (185)	8/31/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 526

I was disappointed to find that EINI was not a filing company with the SEC. I wanted to see who EINI considered to be its competitors and what they thought were their competitive advantages. When I think of Castnet.com, I think if Castnet.com is such a good idea then there should be a lot of copy cats around. Think about: Monster.com competes with CareerMosaic.com, and HotJobs.com, etc. In fact, if you search the web you will find that there is several of these type of web services in each state. There are hundreds of companies competing against Monster.com. Why? Because it is a good idea. Now, I can understand that there aren't as many people applying for actor positions as there are applying for engineering job and so there would not be as many competitors. If this is a good Internet business, there should be at least one and probably many more business like this out there. There are many casting companies in the United States. Why are there not many casting companies on the Internet? Maybe there are and I just don't know about. I'll just have to go do some DD because I'm sure I won't get any help here (no offense intended). The other option is to just wait 60 days for SEC filing.

To: Roger Bodine who wrote (185)	8/31/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 526

"Currently, casting directors release a list of roles not already packaged or precast to services that then distribute the information to talent reps. The industry leader, and de facto monopoly on this service for the past 27 years, is Breakdown Services, Ltd. (http://www.breakdownservices.com/agreement/agree.html ), which delivers to agents around 100 theatrical and commercial breakdowns daily by messenger and now over the Internet where they pay $42 a week for the information." "The Link (http://www.submitlink.com/), with its nearly exclusive access to the casting breakdowns and its impressive roster of talent from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' venerable Players Directory, would seem to have the leading edge in the market." "While some have taken sides in the competition between Castnet and the Link, most casting directors and agents are in a wait-and-see mode, looking at both services to see which they like best -- and to see where the chips fall." "Rick Millikan, who casts "The X-Files" and "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," says, "My assistants have [an online casting system], but I feel like by the time they've turned it on and I've gone through it with them, I could have been through a stack of pictures." actors.castnet.net