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To: Candle stick who wrote (4075)	5/7/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: marion (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<< I think AMZN just popped on that report on CNBC that Crown books is likely to go bankrupt...........;^) >> They mentioned that companies like Barnes and Noble and Borders offered a better atmosphere... coffee bars , comfortable chairs , nice music etc., and that is what hurt Crown Books. How does Amazon compete with that?

To: Candle stick who wrote (4075)	5/7/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

CS, that makes as much sense as anything, I suppose. What a relief for the longs - Crown's not a threat! BTW, Druid is being grossly unfair to Borders for the IP address thing. ISPs, as I understand it, have to be able to look up the URL you enter in your browser and match it up to an IP address. The file containing this information must be updated with the new address and until it is, "you can't get there from here". There was a news story a few months ago (WSJ I think) about a bad update of this file getting downloaded to ISPs, so even when Web site operators do everything right, they can get virtually lost (pun intended). Bob