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To: epicure who wrote (39535)	12/16/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: SeaViewer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

That's exactly my experience. I found BKS has the same book price as AMZN. BAMM is a little bit cheaper, but less selection. I just bought Tom Wolfe' Man in Full (a great book) from a local Crown book store. The store gives 40% discount on all NY Times best sellers. So it's even cheaper to buy best sellers from Crown than AMZN. Jeff

To: epicure who wrote (39535)	12/16/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

I have to wonder what kind of model they are using on AMZN. I bought a few books there to begin with, but using shop bots I have found there is always somewhere cheaper. X, is this some kind of price comparison site ? This is something that I have been trying to find. With the transparency of the Web, I think it is inevitable that price comparison will be simple and free and also the reason that E-commerce margins will always range between slim and none. TIA, John