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To: Don Westermeyer who wrote (2471)	3/25/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Joe E.	Respond to of 164684

Re 2nd tier sites: I tried out the books.com site and found it to be pretty good. I priced a book I recently bought at All Direct Books alldirect.com for $46.20 including shipping. (Asces.com said All Direct was cheapest for this book.) Books.com charged $49.40. Five cents less than Amazon. $3.50 or so less than Barnes and Noble (they add on sales tax for my state). But $3.20 more than All Direct. Books.com was pretty fast once the main screen loaded. No complaint there. Not as interesting as the AMZN or Barnes and Noble site, though. All Direct (the cheapest price) made me earn my $3.20 savings, though, as it took me 40 minutes to make the purchase. Since I had other windows going it wasn't really 40 minutes of my time, but it could have been if I had been using AOL's proprietary browser, like newbies do. Conclusion: Books.com has a very good site name, and a reasonably good site. If they are willing to spend $5 million a month or so on advertising they may become a threat. All Direct doesn't look to be a big threat in the near future. Just my opinion.