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From: bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
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Date: 2 Nov 88 04:13:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: olsen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Jim Olsen)

On-line publishing will require new economics and ways of doing
business, the old ways may have to wither. What will drive it will be
watching competitors making profits. If they don't, then it was a
failure, if they do one will change their way of looking at their own
business to adapt (or die.) Current "problems" in the economics of
paper publishing cannot be viewed as insurmountable obstacles to
on-line publishing, only just what they are, the old order.

I have little doubt someone suggested automobiles would never catch on
due to the large investments buggy builders had in horse farms.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||