She plans to acquire electronic rights to backlists, sign up new authors (with fifty-per-cent profit-sharing), and form a self-publishing division.

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The country has since adopted e-voting, an e-health system and introduced the ability to sign documents using an electronic signature.

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Meanwhile, in a sign of regulators' growing concern about evolving electronic trading, the SEC staff is also studying rules for so-called dark pools, private electronic-trading networks that match buyers and sellers anonymously.

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His likely successor at NYSE Euronext (nyse: NYX - news - people ), Duncan Niederauer, is a fellow Goldman alum who has expressed disdain for floor brokers--another sign the ever-shrinking auction floor of the Big Board is giving way to NYSE's electronic systems.

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