They are working toward goal of 100% electronic distribution of software with no packaging or shipping of products.
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Yet the fear remains that, despite these initiatives, revenues from electronic distribution will not make up for the money lost as print declines.
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Netflix stole the market from Blockbuster by shifting the paradigm to video by mail and then innovated again by creating competition to its own model through electronic distribution.
And the newspaper companies' tribulations do not necessarily presage the demise of the news business, for they stem in part from the tumultuous and expensive transition from paper to electronic distribution.
Its small electronic-distribution system has allowed upstarts like the Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange, an electronic energy-trading network, to whittle away at Nymex's market dominance in the sector.
Like other paper-based distribution businesses, such as newspapers and magazines, demand for greeting cards have been negatively impacted by the proliferation and growing popularity of electronic media distribution.
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Its small electronic-distribution system has allowed upstarts like the Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (nyse: ICE - news - people ), an electronic energy-trading network, to whittle away at Nymex's market dominance in the sector.
American garment makers increasingly offer electronic ordering, automated distribution centres and inventory-management systems tied into those of their customers.
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"As we've gone electronic, we've really opened our distribution network, " says Rick Redding , the managing director of products and development at the CME.
No presses are required for purely electronic publishing, and over time, this new distribution system will have as-yet-unknown effects on the traditional publishing world.
Electronic Arts would finance the illicitly-created start-up in exchange for an ownership interest or exclusive distribution rights to the content created by their new company, which would produce video games for Electronic Arts instead of Activision.
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Better Than Cash (formerly the 20% Initiative), a program to introduce electronic and mobile payment systems to developing countries to facilitate the distribution of aid resources.
They are, of course, not the old physical distribution people, but the people who own the electronic wire, and that's the telcos, to the extent they do it, and Comcast.
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