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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (20035)	10/5/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Is that good? William, do you want to build inventory level in a deflationary environment? I thought part of AMZN's appeal was Just In time Inventory? As an aside, check out DRIV (Digital River). They have AMZN's model of hooking up with "associates" and developing a huge library of titles (in this case, software titles). The only difference is that DRIV is not devleoping its own website, it doesn't want to compete with its customers. If AMZN ever gets into Internet software sales, they should make a deal with DRIV, who has oever 120K software titles. DocStone

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (20035)	10/5/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Amazon's deliberately building inventory levels. William, I know that. That was not in the business model. The advantage of the model was little inventory. That did not work. It is not obvious that the business model does not work? Glenn