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 [...]