The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
September 2nd, 2009
According to MediaPost (and presumably a great many other sources), “Ad spending among the U.S. media monitored by the Nielsen Co. declined 15.4% during the first half of 2009 vs. the same period in 2008.” The charts tell the story: And the categories of declining spend will suprise no one: … with the possible exception…
September 2nd, 2009
There isn’t a whole lot of data on this ZDNet posting, but the news is larger than the data. Nokia is showing (off) its first netbook, the Booklet 3G, at a trade show in Germany. Here’s what I don’t care about the announcement: there are lots of competing netbooks on the market already most are…
September 2nd, 2009
Courtesy of freakbits.com comes this perhaps authoritative list of the 10 most-pirated eBooks of 2009. The results are calculated from BitTorrent downloads. As FreakBits notes, “The list shows us that illicit book downloads are not yet threatening the bestselling authors you’ll find in the New York Times list…In fact, most books that are downloaded on BitTorrent…
August 30th, 2009
A little bit of a levity as befits a Sunday blog entry, albeit about a serious issue, computer security. On August 25th McAfee released its third annual report on the most dangerous celebrities to search for online. (McAfee, Inc. “is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company.”) The big problem is that if you follow…
August 24th, 2009
Courtesy once again of the indefatigable Bob Sacks, a link to a very interesting article in Advertising Age. The article leads off with a clear lede: It wasn’t so long ago that almost every magazine chased ever larger circulation, even if it meant losing money in the process. It worked because print-ad sales paid the…