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To: Candle stick who wrote (1602)	2/18/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: Candle stick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

ACSES: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and 23 further web bookstores at your fingertip FEB 18, 1998, M2 Communications - Acses, the price comparison service for Internet bookshops, today announced the inclusion of the 25th bookstore in its book price search engine. Two of them are Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, the two world's largest bookstores. With additional shops Acses has now further extended its leading position as the online book shopping service which compares offers from more shops than any other service available on the Internet. Visitors using Acses simply select a book and the Internet software robot then automatically visits all 25 online bookshops simultaneously to retrieve the current prices for this book from each store. Availability, shipping costs and shipping times are taken into account as well. After a few seconds, Acses presents a table of all offers, sorted by prices. Using advanced search capabilities, Acses even finds the merchant with the best total price for a stack of up to ten books. According to Yahoo! Internet Life, "Bargain hunting for books online has never been easier than this". Although most online bookstores offer deeper prices than classic bookshops, discounts vary greatly from book to book and from store to store. With a few mouse clicks, the bookshopper now gets a complete overview of the online book market. "No one wants to pay more than the best available price for a standardized item as a book is", Christoph Janz, Managing Director of Muenchhoff & Janz GmbH states, "but it requires too much time to check out the prices of one or even several books at a wealth of stores manually. Acses performs this job automatically and brings a market transparency to the online book market which has until now been reserved to stock markets. We expect that comparison shopping systems will boost the progress of electronic commerce because they offer a significant advantage over classic retail channels." Acses is a service of Muenchhoff & Janz GmbH, a German based software company with a main focus on Internet software robots and comparison shopping systems. For a test of Acses and more information, visit the Acses web site located at acses.com. -0- (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTDCONTACT: Christoph Janz Tel: +49/7141/250043 Fax: +49/7141/250071 e-mail: pr@acses.com WWW: acses.com M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES.