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To: Greg M. who wrote (10887)	7/20/1998 8:59:00 AM
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Click Here for More Information Headlines Previous Story Next Story Barnes & Noble Stumps For Intranet E-Commerce Biz Newsbytes - July 14, 1998 15:19 NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1998 JUL 14 (NB) -- By Bob Woods, Newsbytes. Barnes & Noble Inc.'s [NYSE:BKS] barnesandnoble.com Internet bookselling subsidiary wants to open "libraries" of sorts on companies' intranets - the differences being that the retailer won't lend books and periodicals to businesspeople, and those publications aren't expected to be returned within a preset amount of time. Barnesandnoble.com said it launched what it called "the first ever business-to-business" e-commerce program that will place book titles and periodicals (read magazines) on a company's intranet, which is like a mini World Wide Web for a particular business. Besides facilitating business-to-business e-commerce, a market which several studies have shown is growing more faster and is more profitable than consumer retailing via the Web, "barnesandnoble.com Business Solutions" lets a company recommend specific titles on their intranet for their employees -- a "summer book reading list" of sorts, except workers generally don't get summer off. The new program "turns corporate book and periodical subscription purchasing -- once a labor intensive process -- into an easy and efficient system that takes only a matter of seconds," Barnes & Noble claimed. In fact, that line of reasoning is often cited as one of the big advantages of business-to-business e-commerce. Specific advantages include multiple reporting options that make it easy to keep track of the quantity and selection of books and periodicals purchased, and selections from all books in print, especially computers and technology, business and professional reference books and periodicals. All purchases made via intranets are transacted on a secure server, Barnes & Noble said. The bookseller also announced a deal with Arthur Andersen Inc., where its barnesandnoble.com Business Solutions program will offer unlimited access to a micro-site of Arthur Andersen's KnowledgeSpace business improvement Internet service. Barnesandnoble.com is at barnesandnoble.com . Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com . (19980714 Headlines Previous Story Next Story %ONLINE %MSP BKS V%NEWSBYTES P%NBYT Search for: Enter Stock Symbols (eg: IBM, T, GM) or Company Name. Click Here for More Information News: Your Personal News \| Search News Hot Stocks \| Internet News \| Technology News \| Mergers/Acquisitions Futures/Commods \| News by Industry \| Personal News Manager Quotes (free): Quotes & News \| Mutual Funds \| Money Market Funds Company Digest \| What's Hot/What's Not \| Market at a Glance Global Stocks Portfolio: My Portfolio \| Internet Portfolio Research Corner: Company Digest \| Earnings Surprises \| First Call \| IPOs \| Global Stocks User Info: FAQ \| Register \| View Balance \| Update Account Info \| Mail \| Cancel Account About News Alert: Info \| Pricing \| What's New \| Sources