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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.7.22 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 And now the printed media are taking over the electronic channels. The fastest-growing book seller since Aldus Manutius five hundred years ago has been Amazon.com, which sells printed books over the Internet. In a few very short years it may have become the Internet's largest retail merchant. And Bertelsmann, in the fall of 1998, bought a controlling 50 percent in Barnes & Noble, Amazon's main competitor. More and more of the specialty mass magazines now publish an “on-line” edition——delivered over the Internet to be printed out by the subscriber. Instead of IT replacing print, print is taking over the electronic technology as a distribution channel for PRINTED INFORMATION. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)