Books will survive, in part because new electronic distribution will permit price cutting that makes them accessible to a larger audience.

Everyone was making lots of money, and it wasn't in anyone's interest to take the electronic distribution route.

Advantages were electronic distribution (no print costs), the speed of distribution (instantaneous), and a decentralized newsroom of correspondents who worked from offices worldwide.

New obligations to promote electronic distribution and transmission of government trade regulations on imports and exports; (2).

Starting out with a printed directory profiling 540 of the largest and most important companies in the world, the company soon moved quickly to electronic distribution.