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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (6986)	6/21/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Glenn, I'm not a vehement bull or bear on AMZN, but my question/comment is this: Since people are surfing the net more and more, this would seem to leave less, not more time to read books. Book sales are not going to go away, but book sales are not growing except in low single digit rates. Dwight, The reduction in reading has been proven. I am a bear here as you know. While I'm not a vehement bear, I guess I have to admit that I'm not that enthused about AMZN's lofty expectations, either. I've surfed B&N's online site, and found it to be very very good. Various book assn reviews of the book, reader comments, etc. What more do you need. I prefer B&N since they typically have what I want in stock. Amazon only has it in its database but not in stock and typically most items are special order. I do not even want to start on their debt and negative book value. Glenn