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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by throwawaykf03 on Thursday January 23, 2014 @11:59PM (#7113410)
B&N gave them a stake in the eBook business for $300M. That's not nothing. That is an instant entry into the eBook business for Microsoft. Compare that to the huge amounts of time and money and legal fighting and publisher wrangling the other players (Amazon, Apple and Google) had to invest.
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