The marginal cost of supplying another unit of output of an electronic product on the internet is almost zero. If long-run equilibrium has price equals marginal cost, internet firms will all go broke. Can you resolve the puzzle?

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The marginal cost of supplying another unit of
output of an electronic product on the
internet is almost zero. If long-run equilibrium
has price equals marginal cost, internet firms
will all go broke. Can you resolve the puzzle?
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