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To: Tom D who wrote (28009)	11/24/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Satellite Mike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Forrester Research has once again lifted their projections for web sales, but b & n is not expected to benefit that much (They already sell billions of $$ worth.). mike

To: Tom D who wrote (28009)	11/24/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Satellite Mike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Could someone please name the analysts that have downgraded b & n and Borders, still keeping Amazon.com at Strong Buy. Thanks. mike

To: Tom D who wrote (28009)	11/24/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: Mark Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Forrester Research used to predict (August '98) that US ecommerce would hit $1 trillion around 2003. Most of the rest of the world was quite a bit behind the U.S. I never saw their global estimates last August, but I think they would have been around 1.5T. Recently they revised their estimates and started predicting that global ecommerce would be 3.5 trillion in 2003. << Tom i remember reading this too thanks for bring this to the thread.

To: Tom D who wrote (28009)	11/24/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

TomD,<Forrester gets funding from internet companies> Hello from Seattle. On the above I guess I have a problem with Forrester being or not being impartial in their research, but I just arrived here, so I'll try to get back to this later. I still think that commodity on-line buying will slow down and show no or little profits. I agree with some of the experts who feel the Internet has to many lookers and not enough real buyers. As I've said before. I can't see the average Wall Mart shopper buying on the internet, and there's just not enough yuppies out there to continue this growth going 1 or 2 years out. As always, we'll see. Regards