Why, when you can buy it on the Web, they wrap it, ship it, slap it, zap it, right to its destination and you probably got it at a better price than if you had stood in line. Now books are great, but before Amazon books were just books. Now they're cool. Wants to be the personal Web store for everyone. A long way to go, but it's done some remarkable stuff so far.
Software is a no-brainer for Web sales.
The Cabbage Patch doll of the 1990s. Preview has signed up 5 million subscribers and has deals with AOL, Excite, Lycos, Snap and USA Today. It made its fare search engine available to other Web sites, free of charge. For that reason we also think AOL could show strong food sales with the usual holiday non-perishable food exchanges. Let the fruitcake beware.