MCN - December 12, 2005

Discovery Communications Inc. is getting into the encyclopedia business. Only it's not going to sell hard-bound books door to door. Instead, it will deliver video clips via the Internet into homes and surround them with brain games and educational aids. The $2.4 billion programmer, whose network stable includes Discovery Channel, TLC, Travel Channel and Animal Planet, some time in the first qu...

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