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To: zax who wrote (12660)	8/5/1998 3:08:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

The recent support level appears to be breaking to the downside bellow 108 to 106. If Amazongonenuts closses bellow 105, the next support level will be around 95 if that doesn't get punched through quickly. -30? Maybe.

To: zax who wrote (12660)	8/5/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Respond to of 164684

Hi Zax, I saw your earlier post for Asnd and Ty for your thoughts. I wrote 4 Asnd Sept 40 puts @2 premium last Friday while it was dropping to 44. If you like Asnd in the high 30s..... However, I think I will just get to keep the premium. The F/A is there, and the LU take-over premium will keep coming back.

To: zax who wrote (12660)	8/6/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Indep. Bookseller Sues B&N, Borders, Amazon Over Discounts Dow Jones Newswires NEW YORK -- An independent bookseller filed suit Wednesday against Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS), Borders Group Inc. (BGP) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), alleging the big booksellers throw their weight around to get discounts from publishers that aren't available to smaller stores. The allegations in the suit by Intimate Bookshop Inc., a Chapel Hill, N.C., bookseller, resemble those in a separate lawsuit filed against Barnes & Noble and Borders in March by the American Booksellers Association and 26 independent bookstores. The new suit, filed in federal court in New York, seeks class-action status on behalf of all independent bookstores. The suit alleges that the big booksellers coerce publishers into giving them discounts and other favorable treatment, from advertising allowances to payments for prominent display of certain titles, that aren't given or even known to independent stores. The result, the suit alleges, is to damage the smaller stores competitively and force them out of business. A Borders spokeswoman and an Amazon.com spokesman said the companies hasn't seen the suit and declined to comment. A Barnes & Noble spokeswoman could not immediately be reached for comment. Carl Person, Intimate Bookshop's attorney, says the new suit is broader than the ABA's suit, since it seeks damages on behalf of all independent bookstores in business during the past four years. In addition, he said, the new suit extends the allegations into the online arena. Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com, Barnes & Noble's online-sales unit, are named as defendants because they allegedly received similar discounts, he said. Independent bookstores have long claimed that they are being discriminated against by favorable pricing practices that publishers give to the big chains. The ABA has reached settlements with six major publishers over the issue, and sued Barnes & Noble and Borders in California in March in what it said was a further effort to address the matter. -Michael Rapoport; 212-227-2017; michael.rapoport@cor.dowjones.com