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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Kodak didn't really make bad management decisions any more than buggy whip makers made bad management decisions. As a chemical company (that's what they really were), there just wasn't really much space for them in the digital realm.
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Yes and no. Kodak holds a huge portfolio of patents on digital imaging that would have put them at the forefront of the technology if they had commercialized them. Instead they kept making buggy whips and let their competitors come up with other ways of doing digital so their patents aren't nearly as valuable now (OK, so that's a little oversimplified
but they had the potential and played it safe with their known film products).
Unless they can make this change for free it's probably a bad overall decision as books are going to specialty for those who want hard copy or digital for the rest.