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To: Gary Korn who wrote (2524)	3/29/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Newsbytes notes a standard "run-rate" financial projection would multiply the most previously reported quarter by four, not base projections on continuous doubling of the previous quarter. However, since Barnes & Noble has been online for less than a year and has doubled each quarter, Newsbytes notes a standard run-rate projection method might tend to underestimate the actual likely results. The two booksellers have been busily forging alliances with other major online players as part of the competition. Barnes & Noble scored one huge coup when it signed an agreement with Microsoft, one of the biggest players in almost all computer-based arenas. Amazon, which "went public" with a huge initial offering the same quarter Barnes & Noble first came online, has forged alliances with America Online, Yahoo!, Netscape, Excite, AltaVista Search Service, @Home Network, GeoCities, and the Prodigy Shopping Network. That group includes five of the six top-rated World Wide Web sites, according to the most recent reports from PC Meter, the Internet audience measurement index service. continued