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To: Tom D who wrote (5870)	6/13/1998 6:43:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

tom, please explain why amzn is worth 6 times more than barnes and noble? 2 more doublings equates to $12 billion in market cap. b&n is $2 billion. i look forward to your cogent analysis.

To: Tom D who wrote (5870)	6/13/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

TomD<After the Q1 blowout earnings came out, my bullish postings were attacked from everywhere> I'm sorry, I missed their blow out Earning's, or were you refering to their blow out sales increase?

To: Tom D who wrote (5870)	6/15/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164684

Slander? Tom, I suggest you read the proxy filing. At the time of the IPO (from the prospectus), KP owned 3,401,376 shares. As of 3/1/98, they owned only 2,749,070. That's a drop of 652,306 pre-split or 1,304,612 post-split. In dollars, that's almost $81 million. Now, it's possible that not all of those have actually been sold, but they have at least been distributed to limited partners of KP. Many 144s have been filed since late January and many of those appeared to be KP investors. McNealy's name, if I remember correctly, showed up in Barron's 144 filing table. Anyway, it's a helluva lot more than 50,000 shares. Challenge met! Bob PS: You're right. "Its not hard to answer this question."