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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (12383)	8/2/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: umbro	Respond to of 164684

Barnes and Noble is the online bookstore of choice at MSNBC. Don't know if this was mentioned, but I was just cruising the msnbc.com site, and notice that the book reviews over there point to barnesandnoble.com. Looks like B&N isn't shy about spending ad dollars to win back some market share.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (12383)	8/3/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: umbro	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Barnes and Noble has an affiliate program too. barnesandnoble.com The payment structures are different, B & N says: Earn up to 7% on books and magazines, up to 3% on software. There's no limit to how much you can earn, and every single product we sell qualifies for commissions -- no exceptions! The more you sell, the more you earn. and Amazon.com says: Amazon.com pays you 15 percent on more than 400,000 titles and 5 percent on more than 1.1 million additional in-print titles, CDs, other products. As you can see, both of them have "up to ..." clauses. Without knowing the details, it is difficult to know who pays better. B&N has an impressive list of affiliates given its late start: News and Media CNN USA TODAY The New York Times MSNBC CBS ABC Knight-Ridder Los Angeles Times Pointcast Weather.com Technology Ziff-Davis CMP Wired Sports ESPN Sportzone Pittsburgh Penguins Search Engines and Directories Lycos Webcrawler HotBot GTE Superpages and BigBook Infospace Switchboard Tripod Angelfire WhoWhere Entertainment and Living Disney Oprah.com Lifetime Discovery A&E Biography People Online National Geographic CondeNet Traveler CondeNet Epicurious Financial Quote.com Fortune CBS MarketWatch Individual Investor Shopping MSN Plaza I-Mall Shopweb Metashopper Internet Service Providers Earthlink Mindspring Gateway Nonprofit Philanthropy Journal Online New York Public Library The Children's Defense Fund Columbia Journalism Review SeniorNet Special Interest Planet Out MysteryNet Cigar Aficionado Wine Spectator NetNoir Autoweb.com Princeton Review