After a year of studying digital downloads and on-demand audio and video streams, the association decided that 100 streams is about the same as one downloaded single, what they call "an approximate barometer of comparative consumer activity".
To extend its range, a number of projects are now exploiting the existing and far more extensive road network in effect, putting the internet on wheels.The Internet Bookmobile, as its name suggests, drives around printing books on demand, downloaded from the internet.
Japanese buyers will be able to view content downloaded or streamed from Nippon's top video-on-demand providers Tsutaya [JP] and acTVila [JP].
Online content accounted for another 10%5%5% of this is on-demand catch up services such as BBC iPlayer, 3% on downloaded or streamed services such as Netflix and 2% on short video clips).
Under this model, books have not only turned into streams of electronic bits that are downloaded to hand-held devices or printed on demand.
Such an offering, he said, would combine the flexibility of the so-called streaming services -- where users listen to unlimited numbers of songs on demand, but cannot download them -- and the portability of downloaded tracks.
(Movie studios often limit when a film can be downloaded for viewing so it doesn't cut into sales of the DVD or the on-demand revenue).
In addition, TV customers can choose from 40,000 on-demand titles, including both movies and TV shows, thousands of which can be downloaded for offline viewing, the company says.
Game Manuals – Game manuals for Games on Demand titles can be viewed, downloaded or printed on Xbox.com.
