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

To: Howard Hoffman who wrote (6739)	1/8/1998 9:07:00 AM
From: the Druid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

"Exclusive" is over used for online contracts and it has been very confusing -- A small sample from the news recently: 1. Cybermeal exclusive on EXCITE and exclusive on AOL biz.yahoo.com "cybermeals will be the exclusive worldwide provider of aggregated online consumer takeout and delivery meals to the Excite site audience" "cybermeals has been named the exclusive online ordering service for America Online Inc. " biz.yahoo.com "AOL.com Makes cybermeals Exclusive Takeout and Delivery Service Network" "cybermeals will be the exclusive aggregator of restaurants" "cybermeals has been exclusively endorsed by the National Association of Pizza Operators and the Restaurant Delivery Services Association" 2. B&N and AMZN both exclusive on AOL biz.yahoo.com " Far-Reaching, Exclusive Agreement Includes Unique BarnesandNoble.com Links Throughout Service, Enabling AOL Members to Easily Find Titles Related to Online Content" "BarnesandNoble.com has been the exclusive bookseller in AOL's Marketplace since March 1997" "The company also publishes books under its own imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores and nationwide mail order catalogs." biz.yahoo.com "Barnes & Noble/America Online commerce agreement has no effect on Amazon.com's existing position as an exclusive bookseller on America Online. Amazon.com announced a three-year exclusive bookseller agreement with AOL in July of this year. Amazon.com is the exclusive bookseller on AOL.com and AOL's NetFind search engine. In addition, Amazon.com has multi-year exclusive and premier bookseller relationships with 5 of the top 6" That's four exclusive's in one paragraph. Is that a first? --- I am exclusively exclusive in my sampling.