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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam who wrote (6466)	12/17/1997 5:02:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 13594

Hi Sam; If AOL really has 10m subs why am I still getting these free please try me AOL disks in the mail..I would like to see the way they count subscibers, and how long they hang onto dead accouts just to keep the hype up. Did you see the spin in the B&N's last quater report..as they went on and on about incresed store sales...something like accounting for 87% or so of their income UP from 70% or so , I guess you know that kind of UP..means that outside sales went DOWN, also their inventory is UP..considerable..and they talked a rosy picture, profit this and profit that..untill you get to the bottom and see they still had a net loss per share..and somewere in it they mentioned how they will take a one time charge bringing in the juck bonds they sold..how come that interest got skewed to the back of the stove, and is now pushed into next quater.. it reminds me of all the rosy pictures that Block Buster vidio put out, untill they could no longer avoid or stop the real truth. B&N and AOL are a matched pair , it ought to be interesting.. Jim