A close second is Book Stacks Unlimited , which lets you accumulate frequent buyer points toward free books. Search the Collector's Library for lists of essential disks in almost every music genre. The new Express site, created for the young womens clothing chain, doesn't sell anything online, but you can print out discount coupons for your next visit to the store, scan what's hip and sign up for the monthly newsletter. Computers and all the trimmings will be hot this holiday. MicroWarehouse offers hundreds of brand-name machines, software programs and peripherals, including Apple Mac and Performa models.
Flowers work on every occasion.
One of the more elegant electronic malls isn't on the net, per se. The newest 2Market CD-ROM catalog features 19 merchants including FAO Schwarz, Eddie Bauer, Starbucks Coffee, Godiva Chocolatier and The Nature Company. This year, Santa's all over the net. Use any web search tool to find more than a dozen sites claiming to be the digital incarnation of the North Pole. Send E-mail to Santa , or if you'd prefer something more cultural, sing along with Handel's Messiah in a live Internet broadcast on Dec. 23.