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To: H James Morris who wrote (17683)	9/21/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164684

<<< < SEATTLE (AP) -- Amazon.com has a video hit on its hands even before the online bookstore -- or its customers -- know what's on the tape. On Saturday, the Seattle-based company began taking advance orders for a home-video version of President Clinton's grand jury testimony. By Sunday afternoon, the $9.95 videotape had climbed to the top of the company's bestseller list, which is updated hourly and posted on the Internet. Amazon.com spokesman Bill Curry said production of the tape will begin as soon as the president's testimony is made public Monday. Copies should begin shipping by week's end, he said. Curry declined to give out sales figures for the videotape, which bumped Stephen King's new book, ''Bag of Bones,'' into the second slot on Amazon.com's list. Two other Clinton-related titles were among those listed as the company's top five sellers. In third place was Kenneth Starr's report on the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair, and in fifth was ''Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals'' by William J. Bennett. >>> Does anyone else see any sleazy pr here? Who gives a sh-t where it is on amzn's "top 5 list, which is updated every nanosecond" unless we know how many damn tapes are being sold??? it's like being the skinniest sumo wrestler -- without data points, it's a fairly useless figure, and in this case misleading since it's implying that amzn is selling tons of videos (pretending to associate amzn's level of video sales with the public's awareness of starr report etc. -- cute, slick pr, and disengenuous)