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Old 08-09-2015, 06:03 PM   #50
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What business plan would have worked?

In the encyclopedia wars, even Microsoft, with or without Funk & Wagnalls, failed. Moving to digital earlier or later made little difference.
Microsoft succeeded. There's was a CD reader in pretty much every computer manufactured after that decision, up until online downloading became feasible (ie, CDs were no longer necessary).

And they made a several tons of money getting other people to put a CD reader in every computer.
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