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To: llamaphlegm who wrote (13587)	8/14/1998 11:38:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

Ll, <.'' Now, maybe even broad enough to justify Amazon's name.> Tmf likes to talk about the 'Touch, feel, the community experience that Amzn offers its customers'. In this post its the 'Amazon name'. I've bought books from Amazon and B&N. How much are their stocks worth to me, going forward. B&N= $30 give or take. Amazon.com $1.49 and thank goodness I'm not a Amzn Junk bond holder.

To: llamaphlegm who wrote (13587)	8/15/1998 2:18:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 164684

The mind-set of all of these articles remains focused on the tremendous growth aspects of the internet rather than on the very low barriers to entry, ease of shopping and tremendous structure for evolutions of next generation Shop-Bots and shopping services. Shopping Bots and shopping services of several types, many we don't even imagine at this point, will evolve in the fertile filed of the internet. Why? 1] Because the underlying technology and prior work in computer database and filtering technologies enables it and the internet amplifies the impacts. And 2] because the end user and OEM is the one with the money and this technology will benefit them by increased ease of finding and getting at what you want for as little cost as possible. Maybe its a very long way off and the "delivery system" might make Einstein or Hawkins blush, but you can think of the result of the evolution of Shop-Bots and enabled services as a scene from 'Star Trek - Next Generation' in which you walk up to a "replicator" and ask the computer for something. The computer, of course, remembers who you are and what you've asked for before and is smart enough to make intelligent choices for most things. If you ask for something entirely new, the computer may suggest a few alternative choices (that have been narrowed down from a Universal expanse of choices) and you quickly get to what you want - a nono-robot berilium encrusted tongue scrapper from the Gamaset Quadrant. Lots of deep pockets and brilliant minds are hard at work on delivery the first early steps along this path. Vested interests will have a lot to gain or loose if they aren't part of it. "Ya aint seen nothin' yet". The internet is slowly, developing technologies, such as P3P(?) and OPS to help make the sharing of user information universal, secure and under user control.

To: llamaphlegm who wrote (13587)	8/15/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

This speaks for itself: Furthermore, any new business launched by the Company that is not favorably received by consumers could damage the Company's reputation or the Amazon.com brand. The lack of market acceptance of such efforts or the Company's inability to generate satisfactory revenues from such expanded services or products to offset their cost could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.