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The 200 year-old company may soon go public on the back of AI-powered education products.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I miss the days when you could just do a thing and as long as you made more money than you spent, just keep doing it. Now the line must always go up, no matter what. And if your business model isn't profitable enough they'll just shut down 200 years of tradition without a second thought.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Surely companies have always adapted and changed products. They're not exactly able to make much of encyclopedias anymore when they're main competitor is free to use and has volunteers writing and editing it.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I think that profit ship sailed for EB long ago.