Kool-Aid chuggers rejoice! Maybe sipping the dot-com mania wasn't as dangerous as once reported. Last night, Barnes & Noble
While the trend in the 1990s may have been to carve out spin offs or create tracking shares, companies are starting to realize that Internet operations that survived through the boom and bust are probably worth owning.
Disney's
Is the game plan for Barnes & Noble to become the next Amazon
Now, with a stronger hand, Barnes & Noble will be able to turn the page to the next chapter of Barnesandnoble.com with conviction. Stirred right, there should be no aftertaste to the Kool-Aid.
Is Barnes & Noble's move to firm up its online business a sound strategy? The company's timing, with the holidays closing in, can't be coincidental, so what do you think it will do differently to compete more effectively against Amazon? And, while we're at it, how will the 2003 holiday shopping season treat Amazon? All this and more -- in the Amazon Discussion Board . Only on Fool.com.