Text content sales grow with 4G

Apps for content are one area where consumers are downloading and continuing to use apps, say researchers at the Yankee Group. A new forecast from Yankee Group predicts that e-book sales will reach $2.7 billion by 2013, an annual growth rate of more than 70 percent.

Researchers believe more than 380 million e-books will be purchased by 2013, four times the amount purchased in 2010. One negative: e-book prices are expected to drop to about $7 on average, a $2 decrease over 2009 prices.

Yankee Group believes that growing 4G mobile penetration is going to help.

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