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To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (24310)	11/3/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

barnesandnoble.com Announces Expansion With Focused Music and Video Collections NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1998-- Bookseller Signs Exclusive Deal with Content-Rich All-Music Guide/All-Movie Guide barnesandnoble.com announced today that it will further expand its product offerings to include focused collections of music and video in the first quarter of 1999. The company also revealed it signed an exclusive agreement with the All-Music Guide/All-Movie Guide, the world's most comprehensive entertainment databases. Under the agreement, barnesandnoble.com will be the only online bookseller with the right to use the data. "The All-Music Guide and All-Movie Guide are quite simply the best music and video databases available today," said Steve Riggio, Chief Executive Officer, barnesandnoble.com. "They are content rich and their links will provide enormous cross-merchandising opportunities with our book database. While our site will offer virtually every available cd, our merchandising will be focused on classical, opera, jazz and show tunes. That approach has been very successful in our retail stores - we know what appeals to a book customer and we intend to create a second-to-none experience for them. We intend to have the same focused approach to video, emphasizing documentaries, travel, how-to and tons of hard-to-find foreign films." "We are confident that barnesandnoble.com will be the leading provider of music and movies for book lovers who shop on the Internet," says Eric Weissman, Chief Executive Officer, All-Music Guide/All-Movie Guide. "We are excited about this opportunity to provide them with the definitive database for music, movies and related information and look forward to a long and successful relationship." In addition to offering an extensive selection of music, including classical music, the All-Music Guide database is the most comprehensive online resource of its kind. All-Music Guide is the only music data provider to cover both current and historical music data for more than 300,000 albums. This data includes artist biographies, music reviews, album ratings and additional information such as suggestions on other artists with similar music styles. Information can be accessed in multiple ways to help the consumer make their selections. For old-movie buffs or those interested in current box-office hits, the All-Movie Guide offers more movie information than any other online source. All-Movie Guide covers more than 140,000 titles and provides expert synopses, artist biographies, movie ratings and, listings of casts and characters. The guide can even give the consumer a list of movies that have similar themes or plot lines. For example, if you were to search for the plot line "Love Against All Odds," you would be linked to such films as 1933's "Goodbye Again" and 1997's Oscar-winning "As Good As it Gets." About barnesandnoble.com barnesandnoble.com offers the largest selection of in-stock titles of any bookseller online, with over 650,000 titles in its distribution center and access to over 2.5 million more from more than 50,000 publisher imprints. Additionally, the company offers an online listing of more than 2 million rare and out-of-print books. It was the first online bookseller to offer deep discounts, including up to 40 percent off hardcover books and up to 90 percent on its selection of thousands of bargain books. barnesandnoble.com is the exclusive bookseller to America Online (AOL)'s more than 13 million subscribers (Keyword: bn) and has strategic partnerships with ten of the top twenty web sites, including ZDNet, CNN and Lycos. Through its affiliate network, barnesandnoble.com has established "remote storefronts," paying the highest commissions with the best reporting tools of any similar bookseller program in e-commerce. About All-Music Guide/All-Movie Guide All-Music Guide/All-Movie Guide is part of a larger entertainment information database, All-Media Guide. All-Media Guide was founded by Michael Erlewine, a musician and computer programmer with a background in archival skills, and database expert Vladimir Bogdamov in the late 1980's. All-Media Guide is the only company to combine all of their entertainment data and evaluative content with associative elements including recommendations, suggestions and hyperlinks to create an integrated relational system and browsing environment that allows consumers to explore the world of entertainment online. CONTACT: Ben Boyd Director of Communications barnesandnoble.com 212-414-6014 bboyd@book.com

To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (24310)	11/3/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Amazon.com is to Barnesandnoble.com (the name is too long!) as Iomega is to Syquest. Amazon.com is to Borders.com is what gilded age St. Louis turned out to be relative to Chicago. A lot of money spent too quickly on the wrong things, in order to become the primary commerce hub. Still, St. Louis didn't turn out that bad. Nonetheless the first to spend the most money in the most lavish manner possible, was not the one that really made it big. St. Louis invested too much in waterways, which in light of railroad development in Chicago, turned out to have been quite frivolous and excessive waste of money. I would suggest that you folks book up on the Gilded Age of Commerce Hub Development before you throw too much money at this oinker. -- Zax