Businesses have been clamoring for the leading e-mail providers, like Microsoft, to enhance the capabilities of mail servers.

Now, it's not enough just to dump e-mail somewhere -- you've got to be able to find it.

I think investors in that particular segment of electronic commerce are anticipating the future of the music business rather than focusing on what's happening now. In the future, record labels will have no choice but to distribute music via the Internet.

It would cost hundreds of thousands for a mid-sized company, ... For a large enterprise, it could cost well over a million [dollars].

Barnes & Noble is hoping [the Web site] will be subjected to the same rules as Amazon is as an Internet company, where their stock is trading at an exorbitant price while the company is losing a lot of money. It also provides them with more protection, so they don't keep losing money through their Internet site and have their stock price go down.

It didn't cost anything to e-mail it. I'm not sure exactly, but it normally takes only an hour or two for us to write something of that length. … Most of that information came from the speech, which was already developed.