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To: udrider who wrote (2918)	4/9/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Candle stick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Remember there is a big difference between YHOO and AMZN....YHOO is a content provider that sells advertising space on thousands of web pages that they have, and the generate revenue and income.... AMZN is a retailer selling a low margin commodity item, for a loss, and it must pay for advertising space to bring people to its site.....they are net losers when it comes to advertising. The 2 companies are not comparable at all, IMHO......YHOO is somewhat of a monopoly and AMZN is just another retailer losing money.....;^) P.S. For the record I did short YHOO at the open (107 5/8) today, because the P/E can now be calculated at 280 with 20% sequential growth.......their profits will actually work against them as the market now has a benchmark to value YHOO against...funny, but the better company(YHOO) is now likely to fall faster than AMZN, because they have a profit....;^)

To: udrider who wrote (2918)	4/9/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Walter High	Respond to of 164684

Colleagues: An added note to the debate about the relevance of hits to Amazon's database: librarians (I am one) have discovered Amazon's database to be a good source for verifying bibliographic information for free. The keyword searching for author and title helps when you have only a partial citation to something, or possibly a few words from a patron but not the exact title. The database is now a search tool for purposes completely separate from buying books from Amazon. Do not discount, however, the value of having a large group of bibliographically astute people getting use to accessing the Amazon database. I have personally told many people about it. Walter High