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To: Rob S. who wrote (12404)	8/3/1998 7:56:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Rob, I found asking the average person on the street gives less than a two percent knowledge that Amazon exists except for the river and forest. Even with those on the net, 80% never heard of Amazon. Most all that invest in the market have heard of Amazon on the net or not. Ask the same average person that uses the net or not if they heard of Barnes and Noble. They need not invest in the market either. You will find more than 99% have. Glenn

To: Rob S. who wrote (12404)	8/3/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<< Oh come on. Ask the average person on the street if they have ever heard of Amazongonenuts.con. The fact is that it doesn't register with anyone outside of the internet and investment circles. >> Rob you make a very important point here. The easy market penetration is over, i.e., those who are all over the net already may know of amzn, but everyone else does not, and they don't care about it. The tunnel vision of the hypsters, who think that everyone else is infatuated with the internet like they are, is unbelievable. The other thing here is that lots of folks have tried amzn or other on-line stores, said, "wow, this is cool", then they haven't been back for months, because the novelty is gone and they really are not into buying a lot of books. But try and reason with the hypsters; oh-well. Victor