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a large survey conducted by two major trade groups, revealed that sales of e-books and juvenile and adult fiction have helped the publishing industry expand.

A survey conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review found that magazines' Web sites reflect a trade-off of standards for online speed.

Survey: 1-In-5 Likely To By iTablet - 01/21/2010

America's obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.

Latest data on US sales of print and e-books.

And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

A new survey from Gartner Research delivers some bad news regarding our online security practices: two-thirds of U.S. consumers use the same one or two passwords for all ...

Aptara Corp.'s third annual e-book survey of book publishers found a rapid increase in sales and title output, especially among trade houses, but questions still need to be resolved about e-readers, formats, and standards.

Interesting survey of opinion on publishing trends from the blogging crew at Scholarly Kitchen.

From the Long Tail Wired blog

A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal.  If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this  

I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.

Top Newspaper Publishing Stories - Editor & Publisher provides newspaper industry headlines covering emerging and important news.

More people are turning to the Internet for their arts consumption...seems to me that this might have implications for 1) people working in the arts (they have to market themselves too), and 2) people who want to do e-projects of various sorts (there is an audience for more complex online projects).