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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (11758)	7/25/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: umbro	Respond to of 164684

The Motley Fool gives AMZN "the big wet raspberry" [ 7/24 Evening News: fool.com ] FOOL ON THE HILL An Investment Opinion by Louis Corrigan Hutchinson: What's Not in the Press Release Every earnings season, I'm reminded of how important quarterly conference calls are -- and of how many public companies continue to violate the securities laws by allowing just the privileged few to listen in. Sure, many companies are gradually beefing up their efforts to treat shareholders like owners, but other firms continue to seem clueless. It's simply embarrassing that Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) doesn't allow individual investors -- the folks who have sent the stock soaring -- to tap into even a replay of the post-earnings release comments. Amazon's investor relations program gets a big wet raspberry from these quarters. Still, there's another more basic problem to the way most companies report quarterly results. Press releases simply don't include the information investors would like to have, from the real diluted share count (and not just what gets used when a company reports a loss) to whether a competitor seems poised to kick a company's butt. Much information that trickles out in a conference call really ought to be in the press release.