Digital content sales are defined to include digital books, digital newsstand, and the apps business.

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Google has its own digital newsstand under development and it wants to make similar inroads with its Android platform, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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In recent months, the company has been rallying publishers around the idea of a Google-operated digital newsstand, a centralized hub for news from publishers that would be available on Android devices.

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Today's announcement marks the largest digital newsstand offering for Android tablet customers to date, with more than 140 of the best daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, all optimized for high-resolution displays in rich color.

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In the pre-digital magazine world, newsstand sales were incidental gravy, subscribers were loss leaders.

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