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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36216)	1/23/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: William F. Wager, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<<new/used college textbook>> see www.textbooks.com <eom>

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36216)	1/23/1999 7:07:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Hate to break it to you, but you have the link to your webpage in your profile. Don't complain at morris for reposting public information. That's what people do here. >BTW Id appreciate it if no one would post my webpage on these public threads again. >Its a truly lame thing to do.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36216)	1/23/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>BTW my sources tell me Amzn is looking into the new/used college textbook arena... anybody know if thats a sizeable mkt?<< I checked this out, but unfortunately it appears, that the local university book store's have that niche. I have two daughters, one that graduated from the U of Wash. My youngest is a junior @ UC @ Santa Barbara. It appears that the prof's recommend books that you can't get from the on-line book-sellers. @ least not on time. Ps Sounds like another conspiracy, Don't you think?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (36216)	1/23/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

Glenn, I have studied Walmart - everyone actually in the "online" logistics automation business. (Which used to just be the logistics automation business). I did logistics automation at Dell - thats how I know the Piper research figures etc. Amazon is the furthest ahead, but, as you say it is a tough biz. Michelle, The difference is that AMZN has many more "components" in that there are millions. DELL has only hundreds but when assembled, can make thousands of different products. I am not aware of mechanical automation for pulling and packaging product. It is a difficult business and we agree. I would love to get in on the bottom floor of any company that can manufacture machines that will pull from an inventory of millions of items, pack them and have them ready for shipping. People walking around with carts presently and manually doing this will never work out for AMZN. Glenn