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Technology Stocks : Gemstar Intl (GMST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RocketMan who wrote (2360)	3/16/2000 5:46:00 PM
From: Exacctnt	Respond to of 6516

R-Man, Thanks for the link. Let's hope there is more upside tomorrow. I have March 60's 85's and 90's call options to unwind. <g>

To: RocketMan who wrote (2360)	3/16/2000 8:32:00 PM
From: Jimmyjohn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6516

Rocketman: The Newshour had a segment on the S. King e-book release. It was described as if we had entered a new era for book publishing. Apparantly in 2 days they have downloaded 500,000 copies and the publishers were prepared to be impressed with 100,000. They speculate it could go over 1,000,000 before it is over. Didn't talk much about the handheld devices or what %age of the copies were downloaded to those devices but both commentators felt like this event has taken e-books to a new level and the fallout for publishing houses will be earthshaking. It will certainly be interesting to follow this component of Gemstar's business to say the least. JJ