Word: digitales
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Two of the online-gaming world's fastest-growing segments - multiplayer role-playing games and social games - are increasingly generating impressive revenues from tiny transactions. Most role-playing games, or RPGs, originally relied primarily on subscriptions for income. The enormously popular World of Warcraft series remains subscription-based. But the...
For pay-to-read to succeed, however, media companies will need a trustworthy, easy-to-use payment platform. Common online payment methods like credit cards aren't feasible because processing fees can exceed the value of such tiny transactions. In the gaming world, the typical micropayment system allows consumers to...
Unfortunately, micropayments in the past have failed to live up to lofty expectations. Over the last 10 years, several companies including U.S.-based Peppercoin and CyberCash offered online payment systems that didn't catch on. PlaySpan CEO Karl Mehta says this is because "there was not enough digital content to...
It's not just the galleries that are finding a steady market in India. The auxiliary professions - everything from archivists, curators and critics to conservators and technicians for lighting and hanging - are also seeing growth. "At one point you couldn't find people who were doing restoration," says Priya Paul...
No question, Amazon is the most forward-thinking company in the book business. If there's a Steve Jobs of books, it's Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. His vision is defining the way books will be bought and sold and written and read in the digital world - which is...