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To: Craig Richards who wrote (29191)	12/7/1998 10:13:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

It's more than a BW article. Did you see the NY Times this morning? Craig, I was just coming to post it but you had it first:-) Thank you. Glenn

To: Craig Richards who wrote (29191)	12/7/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Do these new deals reveal Amazon's new company goal? Perhaps Bezo's ultimate strategy is to become a PORTAL to e-commerce! Think about it. They provide a search database for every company out there, and can "fudge" the results a little here and there depending on how much "advertising" fees that company pays Amazon. They can get a percentage of each sale. They won't have to stock any physical product at all, and they won't have any shipping costs either. I'm being dead serious here. "Giant Popular Shopping Bot/e-commerce gateway" hasn't been done yet as far as I can tell.

To: Craig Richards who wrote (29191)	12/7/1998 11:04:00 AM
From: JBL	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 164684

It seems to me that AMZN is now in the improvisation phase, and is trying to sit on two chairs at once : being an e-tailer, and being an information/media company. These 2 businesses, IMO, are mutually exclusive, and trying to leverage one with the other will lead them to lose credibility in both areas, and will result in their existing customers leaving them. (You cannot be a travel agent and an airline at the same time.) This is just the latest sign that their business plan has failed.