She Worried Her Company Wouldn’t Survive the Internet. The Stock Has Soared Nearly 700%.

She Worried Her Company Wouldn’t Survive the Internet. The Stock Has Soared Nearly 700%. · Barrons.com

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Existential threats, in some cases, create transformative opportunities. Wolters Kluwer a Dutch publishing company specializing in medical and tax information, found itself in a similar uncertain position as others in the industry at the dawn of the internet age. If knowledge became freely accessible via internet browsers and search engines, how would that affect companies that sell information?