Authentication errors, in which the app fails to recognize existing subscribers, are reported for almost half of the publications that offer digital versions free to print subscribers.
As long as you have an HD-equipped radio (three million have been sold by Ibiquity, which is owned by big-league radio chains) you can listen to the digital signal free, without a subscription, and at the same frequencies, too.
The Internet Archive has a competing project, which aims to offer a free digital library.
In Britain and Italy satellite also has to vie with attractive free digital-terrestrial television services.
Free digital tools are just one ingredient in the recipe for digital disruption, exploiting digital platforms is another.
Online retailer Amazon has launched a service that stores free digital versions of CDs bought via its store.
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Subscribers to the print edition of the Post will have free digital access.
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The age of free digital entertainment, at least as far as Sony is concerned, will soon come to an end.
The award was in recognition of its "ebooks programme" which provides free digital course books for psychology, science and technology students.
In true Seoul tech style, many are equipped with a free digital translation service, useful as many drivers don't speak much English.
Here are some free digital tools for planning an itinerary quickly.
The Walkman W Series is a wire free digital music player designed to conveniently and comfortably accompany its user to the gym, trail and treadmill.
Of the thousands of photographs that we now generate with our cost-free digital image capture machines (read: cell phones or cameras), some of them end up getting printed.
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In the week before it goes on sale, the public will be able to sample the digital version for free via a barcode found on flyers and posters.
Then, in 2012, Marvel announced the acclaimed Season One graphic novels would also include similar codes making them the first graphic novels to ever include codes for free digital copies at no extra cost.
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Electronic Arts is offering patient SimCity mayors who have stuck with EA Maxis through thick and thin (not that retailers allow you to return PC games these days) with a selection of free digital games.
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Marvel made comic book history in 2011 by announcing all titles in the Ultimate Comics line would include codes for free digital copies on the Marvel Comics app, with unrivaled incentives for comic shop retailers.
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The San Francisco firm said it has dozens of clients experimenting with new ways to make money from Chinese users, including offering free digital content in exchange for engaging with an ad or downloading an app.
During the Olympics Games (27 July to 12 August), sports fans in these 64 territories across Asia and Africa will be able to enjoy live coverage of the events as well as highlight clips on this digital platform - free-of-charge.
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Vudu is available on thousands of devices (including TVs and PlayStation consoles) and it can work with Wal-Mart to do things like offering a free digital copy of a movie like Toy Story 3 with every purchase of the physical DVD.
Of course, while the studio proclaims it to be retailer and studio agnostic, there are plenty of opportunities to start or expand your UltraViolet library through promotions that do things like give away free digital copies of movies for sharing a link to friends, navigating the UltraViolet signup process or downloading one of the apps, which should be getting their own redesign soon.
At a certain point, the played with digital distribution is essentially free for the producer.
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Thrown in almost free are Digital's speedy Alpha microprocessor and popular Alta Vista search engine.
With rare exceptions, newspapers have accustomed their readers to expect digital editions to be free.
Over the past several years, the vast majority of public libraries are helping their communities bridge the digital divide by providing free broadband Wi-Fi access.
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And Sony BMG will join EMI, Universal Music Group and a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, the company's music store.
By the album cost on iTunes, or dedicated classical download sites like The Classical Shop (run by Chandos, Digital Rights Management-free, high audio-quality downloads, theclassicalshop.net), Classics Online (Naxos), or (for the francophone) Qobuz?
Publishers aren't in agreement over whether to include free access to digital copies as part of a print subscription.
She said the FCC has found that "virtually all cable operators" ultimately will have all-digital systems, which would free up bandwidth.
Gamers who have endured lag filled game-play with unimpressive low-resolution visuals finally can break free thanks to Digital Storm's Marauder gaming line, the first gaming PCs built around Corsair's Vengeance C70 chassis.
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