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To: Jack T. Pearson who wrote (31161)	12/25/1998 4:31:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Your explanation of the costs of fulfillment are very clear and I think I agree with everything you said about fulfillment costs. The question is whether those costs offset savings elsewhere in the model, such as "pull" rather than "push" inventory control. Jack, Thus far, they have not. I cannot say for certain that will be the case in the future. In any case, what you say applies to all on-line retailers. Absolutely including those that operate in both environments. That probably isn't possible in the book business, except when I order 50 copies of the same book, which I sometimes, but not usually, do. Fifty of the same book. Now I wonder what you do<G> Glenn

To: Jack T. Pearson who wrote (31161)	12/25/1998 5:43:00 PM
From: getgo234	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Jack: My experience in checking the pricing on best seller, hard back books is that Borders and Books a Million offer significantly lower prices than AMZN. Why do you purchase your books from AMZN, particularly in those cases where you are buying in volume ? I apologize if you have addressed this same question in the past. If there are millions of people like yourself where price is of little or no consequence than perhaps AMZN has a much brighter future than I imagined. Thank you for your comments.