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To: umbro who wrote (10516)	7/15/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: J.S.	Respond to of 164684

Gary, The "Amazon experience" is a double edged sword. Consider the following from a Yahoo! compadre: "I spent two hours on amazon.com Jul 1 1998 5:12PM EDT last night reading reviews of James Redfield's book "The Celestine Prophesy". While the amazon.com web site folk hail this as the successor of Carlos Castaneda, there seems to be a very sharp division of sentiment amongst the amazon.com customer crowd in the "reader review" section. Many swear by the book's simple yet timeless wisdom as a welcome respite from the complexities of contemporary life while others are just as passionate in their total dismissal of the work either because they show remarkable resistance to anything smacking of "new age spirituality" or because they see through Redfield's superficial attempt to cash in on our hunger for meaning with simplistic warmed-over pablum and cliche-ridden dialogue. Almost all agree that that the writing is very poor and many preferred reading the reviews on amazon.com to the actual book. Some report being thankful to the reviews for having saved them the money for buying the book while others wished they had read the review before shelling out their hard earned dollars. Amazon.com is a great site. However, this does not mean that its added value will always contribute to revenue. Moreover, it is as good a testimony as any that the internet will not only change "how we spend our money" but also "what we spend our money on" and less and less will this be on wood based products used to convey the written word. G Brittain >Granny just hollered down that she ordered Leo Buscaglia's >Living, Loving, and Learning. Got it gift wrapped, too. >Think of how that'll pump up the price/sales!

To: umbro who wrote (10516)	7/15/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I just read the MFJeff article< But the businesses of both AOL and Amazon are performing above expectations. > Give me a break Jeff! Is the Amzn business performing above expectations or is it just the stock? How in the hell can you compare Aol to Amzn? Oh, I'm sorry, Aol has 14 mil subs paying $21.95pm and Amzn is still tyring to figure out how they can sell a book/cd @ a profit. This guy MFJeff (Fischer) spreads more bull shit than all of the world's cattle have ever dumped. If there was no Internet, this man would be selling Panda Bears @ a carnival. Trust me.