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On The Vergecast: how to kill a streaming service and a discussion about the ebook takeover.

In January 2020, company founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman were onstage at CES delivering an hour-long presentation on how they were about to upend the entertainment business. They’d developed new tech, signed up seemingly half the stars in Hollywood, and had raised more than a billion dollars to pull it off. Next, we try out our as-yet-untitled debate show, in which The Verge ’s Kevin Nguyen and Alex Cranz take on a surprisingly contentious topic: is the future of books print or digital?

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