Meanwhile, the shift to digital books has fueled an arms race among digital start-ups seeking to cash in on the massive pool of data collected by e-reading devices and reading apps.
Digital content sales are defined to include digital books, digital newsstand, and the apps business.
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People will be able to buy digital books outright, or pay to access them by the page.
Amazon.com Chief Executive JeffBezosJeff Bezos has created a reason to switch from bound paper books to bits a device with a wireless connection able to download digital books on the go.
For its digital bookstore, it has focused on using an open standard, called ePub, that enables people to take their digital books with them to any devices, said Michael Serbinis, chief executive of Kobo.
The company is not alone in its focus on educational books to digital platforms.
Google says users will be able to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book-search service.
First, publishers make more money on hardcover sales than e-book sales, thanks to the inconvenient and widely unknown fact that digital books don't cost much less to produce than physical ones.
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The Nook e-reading app could also bolster Microsoft's efforts to establish a digital storefront to market apps, e-books and other content to go along with Windows 8, which is critical for the company's plans to enter the tablet market.
Search now extends to digital videos, images, books, music and so on.
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She made it available on Kindles and iPhones, using an Amazon service which allows writers to turn their manuscripts into digital books.
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Unlike digital music or video, digital books require consumers to change their consumption habits.
In January of this year, under her new brand, Boynton Moo Media, Boynton and Ford entered into partnership with Loud Crow (loudcrow.com) to jointly create interactive digital versions of her well-known books and award-winning music, and also to eventually produce entirely new Boynton content.
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It couldn't be learned how much Random House agreed to pay for a royalty on the digital books.
In education, Africa can leapfrog into digital books and mobile learning to become a leading source of new educational businesses and industries.
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It launched Tuesday in Apple's App Store and is from MyPublisher, the first company to create affordable custom physical books from digital images, back in 1994.
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New e-reading services, which allow readers to purchase and store books in a digital library and read them on different devices, have some of the most sophisticated reader tracking software.
We are already one of the UK's largest booksellers and Mobcast will help us offer even more choice for the large and growing number of customers who want to buy and enjoy books on their digital devices whenever and wherever they want.
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Amazon plans to recoup its investment in the Kindle Fire, and earn a little profit by selling digital content like e-books, music and movies to the large Kindle Fire user base.
Its effect is to lock consumers into one company's digital ecosystem, making it impossible for Kindle users to buy e-books from the existing Waterstones platform, for example.
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With prices falling due to digital distribution for movies, music, even books, is the same fate in store for games?
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Under the new law, agencies must get a court order before they can require digital booksellers to turn over information revealing which books their customers have browsed, purchased, read and underlined.
But Google may be leaving out the privacy we have come to expect, with systems that monitor the digital books you search, the pages you read, how long you spend on various pages, and even what you write down in the margins.
Books is now integrated too, saving you the hassle of having to launch the books app, which required you to then open the browser to actually buy any digital tomes.
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It will explore new ways to store content using digital lockers that control downloads of books and videos for later retrieval by different devices.
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In a sector breakdown, the ONS said that price rises for digital cameras, books and DVDs contributed to keeping CPI above target last month.
"The whole book market this year was suffering because of the growth of the digital market with print books losing money to ebooks, " The Bookseller's Philip Stone told the BBC.
So Fastcase and others are paying Indian data-entry firms 40 to 60 cents per 1, 000 characters to "triple-key" the books into digital form, with three typists entering the text and a computer picking the version at least two agree upon.
Simply putting digital books on a device is not enough to truly digitalize education.
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With the app movies, Warner Bros. can include things like digital comic books and content can be added to the app over time through updates.
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