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To: Cube who wrote (1923)	1/11/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: Graham Wideman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Cube: Umm, think you got it backwards... it looked to me like ED_L was saying that Borders was on the ball, and B&N was not. However, point well taken -- it's incongruous to me that these places are so disorganized and haphazardly restocked that I can be standing in the computing aisles at Borders, B&N or Bookstar, and it's still faster to crank up the cell-phone-networked laptop and find and order the darn book from Amazon. None of these stores have in-store customer-browsable inventory for heaven's sake! Graham

To: Cube who wrote (1923)	1/11/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

>>> Borders is a great example of what happens when you don't notice quantum leaps in technology taking place all around you. <<< Cube, your relentless short-side drumbeat has less than no information in it at the moment. I'm sorry, but it's true. Give it a rest, will you? Nobody can take you seriously any more if you keep this boosterism up. Yesterday, after searching every computer store and technical bookstore in San Francisco, like for example Staceys, for the latest full version of Red Hat Linux, I finally found it at Borders. Where I also found a great section of topical technical books considering it is not a technical bookstore. Amazon is great and I get a lot of books from them, but their inventory is mostly virtual, which is what makes it look so good. INPR is generally exhibiting expected pre-option expiration action. However, the volume and pricing could be interpreted to say that something else is going on or will be going on. But it could as easily be that this was company trading or that somebody is taking advantage of the options period to buy a large block at a low price, or some of those convertibles were converted at that price, or a number of other scenarios. The fact is we don't know. Cheers, Chaz