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To: M CAHILL who wrote (36955)	1/26/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

If Amazon puts Barnes and Noble or Borders Group out of business... they will raise their prices and you won't be able to hang out in the bookstores anymore reading magazines and books. You will have to buy everything site unseen and when it arrives you will realize you didn't want that book anyway. The world will be a better place if all three stay in business. So sell and boycott AMZN before your sorry. M CAHILL, I can assure you there is no danger of AMZN putting BKS or BGP out of business. The agressive player here is BKS and they are buying the distribution channel. Glenn

To: M CAHILL who wrote (36955)	1/26/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Cahill-- AMZN keeps Barnes out of trouble because people assume they are posing a competitive threat to Barnes -- but Barnes is the big player here, and getting bigger all the time. If not for AMZN, Barnes would be singled out for anti-trust treatment like MSFT. Perhaps that is why Barnes has not crushed AMZN so far. Barnes needs to get anti-trust approval for their recent acquisition of the industry's major wholesaler. Once that deal is done, Barnes can spin of Barnes.com and put AMZN out of business.