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To: H James Morris who wrote (22381)	10/20/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

From TMF 1. According to company sleuth, here are other domain names registered to Amazon.com. amazon.com amazon500.com amazonblues.com amazonclassical.com amazonfilm.com amazonfilms.com amazonjazz.com amazonjr.com amazonjunior.com amazonkids.com amazonmembers.com amazonmovies.com amazonmusic.com amazonrock.com amazonstore.com amazontelevision.com amazontube.com amazontv.com amazonvideo.com amazonvideos.com amzn.com awake.com awardwinners.com bestsellers.com book-store.com bookchat.com bookmatcher.com browse.com cheapobooks.com filmchat.com filmlovers.com moviematcher.com musicchat.com musichat.com musicmatcher.com prizewinners.com videolovers.com Besides the obvious variations on Amazon, there are some interesting ones here. How about book-store.com, bestsellers.com, and cheapobooks.com. Seemed to have locked in some good names. What's the deal with awake.com? Wonder what that's for? The acquisitions don't show up, junglee.com, and imdb.com.

To: H James Morris who wrote (22381)	10/20/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

and from john ke over at tmf BTW, Amazon is officially no longer Earth's biggest bookstore. Barnes.com now carrier 4 million titles. ---------- New York, Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. expanded its online book selection to 4 million titles, adding used and out-of-print books and an improved Web site with features such as customer reviews. The company had offered 650,000 in-stock titles and access to 2.5 million more books from publishers. New features to its Web site, www.barnesandnoble.com, include a holiday gift center and recommendations based on a customer's past purchases. ... The Web site's new features also include a store locator, which gives door-to-door directions to the closest Barnes & Noble outlet,

To: H James Morris who wrote (22381)	10/20/1998 9:06:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

and my personal favorite from tmf today from mmmmbeeer -- you know who you are Stopped by B&N.com and they've got some new features: Write an Online Review! Let others hear what you have to say People who bought this title also bought ... Guess those barriers aren't so high. Or maybe the community isn't so exclusive. B&N is also selling software and magazine subscriptions. Cheers! PS the level of analysis on this board for anyone who does FA or cares has plummeted, oh well and for those of you TA types who take yourselves seriously (other than to say it's a crapshoot and i'm guessing on sheer instinct alone), one or two questions 1. if the price is allegedly important because it summarizes all relevant investor opinion, how do you explain the wild price swings? 2. if 5-20 large investors could manipulate the float of the stock or merely control bet 20-75%, then what do all your trendlines and bollinger bands, stochastics etc. tell you about the motivations of a handful of investors? 3. do you ever go back over your posts over any 3 week period for amzn in the past 6 months and read your posts? i have a few times and invariably you have described what has happened with uncanny accuracy and also have no fr--in clue as to what will happen next, all told, accuracy is less than 50% -- not a real confidence booster in your methods keep plotting those charts (oh and i hear that the dow should be dropping because the broncos won the super bowl and i just read the coffee grinds from my cup of jo) LP

To: H James Morris who wrote (22381)	10/20/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

You have to look at the big picture to see where this market is going, and it really is a no brainer. - Banks are tightening credit drastically in all emerging markets, and quite significantly in many industrialized nations. - IMF money is only disbursed if combined with austerity measures. (This means countries like Brazil will be in a severe recession in 1999). - US exports will show a considerable decline in October, and the trade deficit will become politically unbearable by early next year. - The Asian crisis will get worse before it gets better as Japan tries to clean up of its banking sector. Greenspan reacted to a rapidly worsening situation, and the best scenario is a soft landing for the US economy, which still means that the Dow will be way below its current level. How bad the situation becomes really now depends mostly on how Japan deals with the crisis. My guess is that it won't do very well. Yesterday, the vice minister of finance in Tokyo was quoted saying that the situation had become so critical that Malaysia may have been right to impose capital control measures a few weeks ago... This should be a huge red flag for Wall Street, but people there have been to busy looking at the charts and taking comfort at how the technicals really look bullish.