If the digital content fails, or is not as described, the new rights will be enforceable against the retailer – such as Google, Apple, or the software provider – rather than the developer.
When its Newton personal digital assistant failed to take off, Mr Jobs killed the project.
However, the attempt to give the title a breath of digital life failed and the website was shut.
Almost all the sites offer a money-back guarantee if the digital prints fail to meet a customer's expectations.
The Warner Music Group posted a wider-than-expected quarterly loss yesterday as growth in digital revenue failed to make up for declining CD sales, sending shares down about 10percentt.
Album sales declined almost 5percentt last year, to 588 million, as a doubling in sales of digital albums failed to compensate for a slide in CDs.
But others, like the consumer products and digital signs, failed to catch on or are so far afield from the company's main focus that analysts say Cisco is better off without them.
Record industry executives mired in gloom as booming digital downloads fail to make up for plummeting CD sales will take some heart from the new talent on the list.
Neither Richard Hawley (Best Male) or The xx (Best Group) will be receiving platinum discs for their releases during a year in which digital downloads failed to make up for the continued decline in album purchases, and only Sandé broke one million UK album sales.
The Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini and the sportswear brand Puma are the first to be brought together by a new Warner Music International division formed as part of the drive to find alternative revenue streams as CD sales decline and digital downloads fail to plug the gap.
