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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (24810)	11/6/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 164684

Here is my first e-mail to the FTC: The internet will re-shape much of the way people do business in the coming years. It offers opportunity for streamlined business practices and cost benefits to consumers. I think it would be against the public's interest to stand in the way of that change. Opposing the acquisition of Ingram Books by Barnes & Noble would be counter to my interests as a consumer. I think it would be damaging to B & N and others as well. Amazon, a $6 billion publicly traded company, should not be given special advantages to enable them to carry out their stated plan to become a vertically integrated e-commerce company. As their CEO has said repeatedly, they plan to become the largest Internet merchant and to buy directly from publishers and other suppliers, eliminating the very "middle men" that Barnes & Nobel is acquiring. It is counter-productive to oppose an existing business on one hand while aiding the goals of another bent on the same results.