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To: Arby who wrote (17701)	12/27/2000 5:45:40 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

How the Amazon.com Top 100 List works. Dear Amazon, I am curious how the Top 100 list is created and how items that are currently unavailable or backordered can be on the list. Thanks in Advance, Aus _________________________________________________________ Dear Mr. Aus: Thanks for writing to us at Amazon.com! As an added service for customers, authors, publishers, artists, labels, and studios, we wanted to show how items in our catalog are selling. This bestseller list is much like the New York Times bestseller list, except instead of listing just the top 50 or so titles, it lists more than two million! The lower the number, the higher the sales for that particular title. The calculation is based on Amazon.com sales and is updated regularly. The top 10,000 best sellers are updated each hour to reflect sales over the preceding 24 hours. The next 100,000 are updated daily. The rest of the list is updated monthly, based on several different factors. As the orders and stock level for these items changes very fast, you could have a fast selling item out of stock. We hope you find it interesting. We appreciate your interest in Amazon.com. Best regards, Shekhar Joshi _________________________________________________________ SanDisk now has two items in the Top 10 at Amazon.com Aus

To: Arby who wrote (17701)	12/27/2000 6:21:42 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Arby, I would be happy to hear your impression of SNDK as an investment. Your article on digital camera unit sales was interesting. Some 20 million units in 2001? Meanwhile Palm alone sold 2.1 million handhelds last quarter. The handset market will reach some 1 billion units annually in the next few years. These are great words of encouragement. Here is a little more d.d. written at a time when my enthusiasm for SanDisk hadn't been worn thin. I think that this analysis is still generally true... ...other than the fact that SmartMedia is probably the more dominant form factor for digital cameras for the time being, and is almost certainly the dominant MP3 medium. I still think CompactFlash has brighter days ahead in these target markets. SDMC/MMC seem like they will be tough to beat in the handset race and with endorsements from Casio and Palm MMC has a distinct lead in the handheld PC arena. Here SmartMedia has no inroads. Message 13903358 Ausdauer