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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elisabeth Tittmann who wrote (45588)	3/13/1999 6:27:00 PM
From: Jenne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Cool! Thanks!!! "...But no matter what new foray or feature Bezos is trumpeting, he always keeps our filmy gaze locked on the future, reminding us in a way that somehow manages to be both winningly modest and titillatingly grandiose that this is the merest tip of the iceberg. "We probably know as much about E-commerce as anyone, but it's 2 percent of what we'll know five years from now," he says, and even with his latest bold move, the purchase of a controlling 46 percent stake in Drugstore.com, he points out that this is likely to be only the first of many investments in compatible Internet businesses. While his beleaguered physical rivals are mired in the present, where they have to attend to sticky details like making money, the specifics of Amazon.com's ultimate form remain forever elusive, a lovely shimmering at the edge of the horizon. In this way Amazon.com truly is a virtual company, existing only in the imagination"....