1.   All the biggest New York publishing houses are now moving quickly to prepare for the possibility that digital books will soon take off.

2.   But digital books seem inevitable, as an alternative, not a replacement, for paper books.

3.   He said these new devices will be able to download digital books not only from personal computers, but directly from telephone lines.

4.   Its plans call for additional stores that sell music, movies and digital books.

5.   Now, BarnesandNoble.com is moving aggresively into the unknown terrain of digital books.

6.   Riggio said the company planned to expand its long-standing publishing program into digital books.

7.   Unlike his rivals, his company holds patents on the technology to read digital books on specialized hand-held devices.

8.   What sort of copyright protection and royalty system will protect digital books?

9.   Elcomsoft and Sklyarov were accused of violating the law by selling a program that broke code protecting digital books.

10.   One Russian programmer, Dmitry Sklyarov was released from house arrest in California earlier this week after he was charged with promoting software that could defeat digital books.