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To: William T. Katz who wrote (2815)	4/5/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I thought that Netscape's market share had stabilized... ...in the last few months, since they resumed giving Communicator away for free. Am I wrong on this? Tom D

To: William T. Katz who wrote (2815)	4/6/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

You article does not say Amazon gets "an exclusive button on Netscape." I thought that you meant it has a button on the browser. Actually, Amazon gets a position on some of Netscape's web pages (NetCenter and Net Search) and gets a bookmark in default browsers. As you discovered, AMZN did pay NCSP for the priviledge to haver a ling ont heir web page. They probably paid some figure like $50 million for that privilege and as Netscape continues to lose ground to Microsoft IE it will be worth less and less. I am not sure if the amount was released but the value surely will decrease as you stated.. Glenn