New York Times Best Seller List: Feb. 20

Unfortunately, an article from the New York Times reports that book sales are decreasing substantially from recent years. The decrease (seen even with star authors like Dan Brown, and Mitch Albom) is seen in the comparison between first and second week sales. For example, sales for Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, dropped 47% in [...]

Well, it seems newspapers’ decline may be slowing; a recent New York Times article reports “the free fall in newspaper advertising may be slowing”, and will continue to do so quarterly. Shares in the New York Times company have recently jumped 10%, and some are even heralding this as the end of the recession. Let’s not [...]

I was greatly surprised by a New York Times news article I read today; the Amish newspaper, The Budget, is officially going to be published on the Internet. Is the downfall of physical newspaper ensured? The Amish, a technologically averse culture, adapting to the internet proves how widespread media convergence is. There is still debate, [...]

I was watching Friday night’s episode of the ‘new’ Jay Leno Show. You have to believe the failure of paper  is at the forefront of the public mind when a famous show host makes a crummy joke about it.  “Today is the 150th anniversary of the New York Times. The sad thing is…I read about [...]