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Pelkonen, T. (2005). Mobile Games: An Emerging Content Business Area. In: Bruck, P.A., Karssen, Z., Buchholz, A., Zerfass, A. (eds) E-Content. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26387-X_6

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