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LEXINGTON Lexington.

1 City (1990 pop. 225,366), seat of Fayette co., N central Ky., in the heart of the bluegrass region; inc. 1832, made coextensive with Fayette co. 1974.
, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000

Virtual College Bookstore Continues to Build On Early Success

In only six months, ecampus.com, the globe's largest virtual college bookstore, has established itself as the leader for the lucrative $100-plus billion student market.

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 available data from PC Data Online, ecampus.com has averaged the highest number of unique weekly visitors since students started back to school in mid-August.
        Site                   Avg. Weekly Unique Visitors
                            (available data August 14 - January 29)
       Ecampus.com                        202,000
       Bigwords                           187,000
       Varsitybooks                       155,000

    Additionally, Go2Net, one of the Internet's leading networks,
providing consumer services, business services, and enabling services,
has ranked ecampus.com as the number one textbook site among their
&uot;bestselling books sites.&uot;
    Additional PC Data Online information available for December
indicated ecampus.com's strength among college students.

 Site             12-17    18-24    25-34    Total

ecampus.com       11.5%    30.0%    22.7%   64.2%
Bigwords           4.7%    16.9%    17.1%   38.7%


&uot;We are extremely pleased with the response to our superior value, emphasis on customer service and aggressive marketing,&uot; says Steve Stevens, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of ecampus.com. &uot;Despite our principle competitors having a one year head start on us, we have become the number one choice for textbooks and stuff among college students.&uot;

About ecampus.com

Lexington, Kentucky-based ecampus.com is the globe's largest virtual college bookstore. The innovative, award-winning company has created technology to provide products and services in all four quadrants of the e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers.  spectrum (business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-business and consumer-to-consumer), including textbook textbook Informatics A treatise on a particular subject. See Bible.  and product fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil  
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1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.

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 services for traditional and online education providers, general consumer products and services, an online auction and book buy back services. ecampus.com is highly knowledgeable about pre-college, college, and post college consumers, with partners from leading educational institutions and representation from William E. Kirwan, President of Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. , and Dave Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM).

The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs
, founder of Wendy's restaurants. For more information, visit http://www.ecampus.com.
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