When Microsoft Introduced Encarta, It Caused the Sale of Hard

question 69

Multiple Choice

When Microsoft introduced Encarta, it caused the sale of hard copy encyclopedias sold by Encyclopedia Britannica to drop sharply. This is an example of which of Porter's five forces?

• A) Rivalry among existing competitors
• B) Threat of potential entrants
• C) Suppliers
• D) Buyers
• E) Substitutes

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Definitions:

α-L-Fructofuranose

A form of fructose sugar with a five-membered ring structure, commonly found in honey and fruit.

Fischer Diagram

A method of depicting stereoisomers of a chemical compound by projecting its three-dimensional structure onto a two-dimensional plane.

Fischer Projection

A method of representing the three-dimensional spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules by using a two-dimensional drawing where horizontal lines represent bonds coming out of the plane toward the viewer and vertical lines represent bonds going into the plane.

Reaction Product

The substances that result from the chemical transformation of reactants in a chemical reaction.