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To: tonyt who wrote (48249)	3/31/1999 8:15:00 AM
From: Jerry Miller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

169 1/2, 170 very early trades

To: tonyt who wrote (48249)	3/31/1999 8:34:00 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Tony, Anyone who has bet against amzn is not in a humor mood today. It is already bid at 168. Up 4, pre-open. If you really want to laugh, look at eBay's market cap.

To: tonyt who wrote (48249)	3/31/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

B & N has similar pricing to Amazon. BooksaMillion, Books, and a few others have better pricing. Amazon is fortunate that Barnes does not want to get into a price war at this time. They stand to loose more right now because they have a much larger amount of sales going through their conventional stores. If they have a price war with Amazon it will cause many people to shift from buying at their stores and will help drive down margins for the entire industry. I think they are missing the opportunity to capitalize on the tremendous excitement about the Internet. I suggested to B&N's VP of Marketing that they mount a marketing campaign something like "If you buy at Amazon.com you pay too much . . . BarnesandNoble.com, (what a long, uncool name for a web site!), has more titles at much lower prices . . ." The slant of the ads would be that only Internet wanabies pay more than they have to - trying to be cool by buying at Amazon. Barnes ad campaign just doesn't ad up: Tom Clancy et al are a nice touch but were is the connection to the net? Put the authors on the site with open interviews simulcast on wide screens at all their stores . . . that would be something Amazon can't touch.