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Direct Carrier Billing is a key payment option because it lets users purchase and pay for apps more easily. It’s also important because it offers a convenient way to buy in regions where credit cards are less common.

Android Market In-app Billing is an Android Market service that lets you sell digital content in your applications. You can use the service to sell a wide range of content, including downloadable content such as media files or photos, and virtual content such as game levels or potions or special-weapons or bonus items.

Refer Here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html

To implement in-app billing in your application, the following steps need to be done
Download the in-app billing sample application.
Add the IMarketBillingService.aidl file to your project.
Update your AndroidManifest.xml file.
Create a Service and bind it to the MarketBillingService so your application can send billing requests and receive billing responses from the Android Market application.
Create a BroadcastReceiver to handle broadcast intents from the Android Market application.
Create a security processing component to verify the integrity of the transaction messages that are sent by Android Market .
Modify your application code to support in-app billing.

For a more detailed step visit the following link
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html

In-app Billing in Android

In-app billing is an Android Market service that lets you sell digital content in your applications. This service can be used to sell a wide range of content such as media, files, or photos, and virtual content such as game levels or potions. Virtual game goods like coins, tokens, in-game special weapons,..etc. It allows the end-users to buy softwares and components within an application.
To enable an application to use In-App Billing, the following packages must be installed..

    Google Market Billing package, revision 1

    Market Licensing package, revision 1

These packages are available to be installed from the Android SDK Manager.
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Available Packages –>Third Party Add-ons –>Google Inc.add-ons(……)
See the screen-shots below

Reference:
More Information regarding In-App Billing:

http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/index.html

Sample Application for In-app Billing

http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html#billing-download