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To: OtherChap who wrote (16241)	9/6/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Oc<If it is legal to buy their inventory with stock, it still seems like ridiculously wreckless financial behavior on the part of Amazon> I don't see it that way. I'm assuming that at the time Bezos cut the deal with B&T before his IPO. I don't think B&T gave him the books, they just got 5mil shares for giving him generous credit terms. I wonder what B&T gives B&N and Borders. B&N.com are expected to go public in the next few weeks. I wonder if B&T will get 5mil shares in that deal? I think I'd rather be a publisher of books rather than a e-tailer.