Abstract: Described herein are third party digital content services for granting access to digital content. The third party digital content service is not associated with any particular end-user device or brand of end-user device and thus does not comprise means for transferring digital content directly to end-user devices configured to only receive digital content from an authorized vendor specific digital content service. The third party digital content service receives input from a user identifying an item of digital content which has been purchased or otherwise obtained from the third party digital content service. The third party digital content service then transmits a grant request to a vendor specific digital content service authorized to deliver content to a vendor specific end-user device or application. The grant request comprises authorization information for a vendor specific end-user account associated with the user.

Abstract: An interactive digital experience for a literary work is described. An embodiment describes a method which provides an interactive service, such as a website or mobile application, to a user. As the user interacts with the service which is related to a literary work, they navigate along a storyline within the service which corresponds to the storyline within the literary work and the user's position along that storyline is stored. Within the service, the user generates elements of user generated content and each element of user generated content which is created is stored with a position reference specifying a position of the user when that element was created. User generated content which was generated by one or more other users of the service is displayed to the user; however content which was generated by any user at a position beyond the user's stored position along the storyline is not displayed.

Abstract: An interactive digital experience for a literary work is described. An embodiment describes a method which provides an interactive service, such as a website or mobile application, to a user. As the user interacts with the service which is related to a literary work, they navigate along a storyline within the service which corresponds to the storyline within the literary work and the user's position along that storyline is stored. Within the service, the user generates elements of user generated content and each element of user generated content which is created is stored with a position reference specifying a position of the user when that element was created. User generated content which Was generated by one or more other users of the service is displayed to the user; however content which was generated by any user at a position beyond the user's stored position along the storyline is not displayed.