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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (75878)	8/31/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Glen, Ignore the low-life. Maybe it will crawl away. That sounds fair enough:-)

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (75878)	8/31/1999 12:30:00 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 164684

>I can't understand why KIS was forced to sell his appreciating puts >today. His Qualcomm claim wasn't that much money. I'm expecting a catastrophic decline in QCOM. The inuts, especially yahoo, are little too strong for my tastes after today's plunge. Most of 'em bounced at the end of the day, especially yahooooo. They'll still go down, but not as fast and hard as QCOM when the first fund manager decides to get out while the getting is good. Just look at the chart- it reminds me of AMZN right at its peak. ;)

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (75878)	8/31/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Tuesday August 31, 12:01 am Eastern Time FatBrain to introduce online model to sell text By Andrea Orr PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug 31 (Reuters) - When you say ``online bookstore,' Fatbrain.com (Nasdaq:FATB - news) is not the name that most people think of. But Fatbrain will introduce on Tuesday a new technology for selling books, magazine articles and other documents over the Internet that it says will do more to change the publishing world than any service offered by Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN - news) or barnesandnoble.com. It says its new service could do for publishing what the MP3 technology has done for the music industry. Fatbrain, which to date has focused selling business and professional books, has developed a new system, called eMatter, that allows book and magazine publishers as well as individuals to sell digitized documents online, and earn royalties on every copy sold. The company says the service will provide a new way to exchange unpublished material, including documents like company research papers that have never been economical to print. It says authors may use the service to sell their work directly to the reader, while magazine publishers may use it to resell articles that have been printed in past editions. ``This is going to be one of those things like MP3 and eBay where you can't predict what will happen,' said Fatbrain Chief Executive Chris MacAskill. ``There has never been an economic channel for the 10-to-100 page document. Authors have had to write for newspapers or magazines, or write a book. What if you want to write something that's 20 pages and sell it? There's never been a model for this.' eMatter incorporates more secure technologies than most existing systems for selling documents online, Fatbrain says. The author can set his own price, provide a summary of the material and then place the work into one of thousands of subject categories on the Fatbrain Web site. They will receive 50-percent royalties for each sale of the work posted. To initially promote the new service, Fatbrain will offer 100 percent royalties on material sold on eMatter between October 18 and January 1. MacAskill said the material sold might include notes from conference proceedings, newsletters, corporate white letters, training manuals or analyst reports on stocks. ``I think it will change the world of publishing,' he said. ``It will empower a whole range of authors to go straight to the people.'