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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (46337)	11/8/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: If only I'd held	Respond to of 122087

???

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (46337)	11/8/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: Anthony@Pacific	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

Nothing,, my fears are now gone ..Thnx to all.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (46337)	11/8/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: If only I'd held	Respond to of 122087

Anthony, for you...a little more information. InfoWorld: So what's the potential downside for these companies then? MacAskill: There is one issue. The economic model is quite different than it is for a book or a magazine article or something like that. The economic model is that we pay a 50 percent royalty to the author, and with a book you get 10 percent of the wholesale price. So if you just compute how many books you have to sell, and how long it takes you to write that book and everything, the economic model for what we do can be pretty sweet for an author. And that does threaten the publishers a little bit. When someone like Stephen King comes up and sells a million short stories and he gets 50 percent for each of those short stories, that's going to be phenomenal. infoworld.com infoworld.com Remember how Merrill Lynch did not want to get into the on-line trading arena because they felt the margins weren't worth it, only to realize later that they had no choice? Well, these big publishing houses are accustomed to only paying out 10% royalties to their authors. That's BS !! How long do you think these authors will continue under that model, when Fatbrain will give them 50% royalties? I say the big publishers better poop or get off the pot. When people think of on-line trading, they think of Ameritrade, Etrade, Datek, etc... Not Merrill Lynch. That's the first mover advantage. Personally, I see Ameritrade as a failing business model. Margins are too thin. But Fatbrain, at margins of 50%?? I see that as a very viable business model. Get your work up man. They are running that promotion until the end of the qrtr. 100% royalties to you. You should consider taking advantage. I hate to keep pestering you, but I really think you could make some good money from it. And I would like to see that happen.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (46337)	11/8/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: Paul A	Respond to of 122087

sad? what did I miss? who/what? Ill tell ya whats sad.. with all these trash companies like GRIN, KIDE making new highs on the pokemon craze- you have a REAL company like TOPP that is trying to break out to a new high the old fashioned way.. with real earnings and realistic valuations.. actually- I did hear that TOPP would be in serious trouble if they didnt have the pokemon craze to help boost sales, but still.. compared to the other trash? night and day! I seem to remember last year this time we were doing the same insanity in the markets.. I believe discount brokers like AMTD, JBOH were all the craze jumping 10-20 points a day.. and in the end, after a few beatings, the shorts were the ones laughing in the end.. SNRS surprised me. I really thought it would fall apart today.. I can wait a few more days... no bigge :)