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Subject:Move Over Amazon From:Daniel Wise <dewise -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 6 Jun 1997 19:44:25 -0500
Colleagues,
Much has been posted concerning on-line book sellers. Here is one more
little wrinkle. According to a story on NPR's All Things Considered
Wednesday, June 4, Barnes & Noble and Borders are about to come on line to
give Amazon direct competition. Also, FWIW, an Alabama corporation, Books-
a-Million, is struggling. Their stock price has been in decline for the
past year, dropping from around 18 to something like 6. These folks are not
your mom-and-pop corner bookstore; they are fairly large, but not large
enough to keep up with Barnes & Noble, Borders, Doubleday, etc. But other
smaller booksellers in Birmingham, AL, seem to be holding their own.
Now the question becomes whether Amazon can withstand the competition from
the "big dogs" on line.
Dan Wise
dewise -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com
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