That Google is pulling for existing old media operations to survive the digital migration is not newsworthy.

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Equally serious, there is a high risk that on a day-to-day basis, digital records will not survive unless control systems are applied.

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At the time Mr Thompson said the BBC would only survive in the digital world if it invested more in areas such as journalism, drama, comedy, music, learning, and children's TV and radio.

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"The historical compact between broadcaster, audience, government and regulator will not survive the move to digital, " warned Mr Carter.

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The reason the program existed in the first place was to give independent bookstores a way to get involved in the growing market of ebooks and digital reading, to give them a chance to survive the ebook revolution.

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While paper records are often looted and burned during wars, many original documents do survive - this may not be the case with digital records.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

You know how people have been telling TiVo how the only way they're going to survive would be to convince some a cable company to license their digital video recorder software for use on set-top boxes?

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And, of course, there is the romance of the rails, a romance that has somehow been able to survive all of Amtrak's struggles -- even in an era that proclaims a digital, virtual world can transport a person anywhere without that person ever leaving home.

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