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To: burgerking who wrote (12143)	7/30/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: umbro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

off-topic: check out the "short interest" info. under Yahoo!'s "Profile" button. It isn't up-to-date, but at least bot the short interest and float numbers are in one place. One good/bad thing about Border's group ... almost all of its stock is in the float, a whopping 72M shares of float. No short-squeeze there. I still think all book distributors, brick and mortar or not, are tough businesses to run with low margins. Maybe Borders can gain on both B&N and Amazon, or add incrementally to its bottom line, but it isn't the sort of businees that makes me want to run out there and buy it. Too many middle-men, too many discounters, too big of an inventory requirement. Tough biz. If I were value shopping for a stock, I'd probably just dump it into an oil stock that pays a dividend and wait out the oil glut.