Articles - Hot Topics & Issues en-us http://www.newmedia.org N/A http://www.newmedia.org news@newmedia.org 20 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/109/1/Prevalence-of-Digital-Reading-Electronic-Books-E-Books-and-E-Book-Readers/Page1.html A recent consumer survey reported that the number of people who regularly download an electronic book or e-book to an e-book reader could reach around 16 million adults in the next few years.  The report by Fairfield Research, Inc. also found that 17% of book buyers surveyed have purchased an e-book in some digital format but that 55% of those surveyed "will only buy traditionally published books." news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/101/1/Online-Holiday-Spending-Through-December-27-Nears-28-Billion-Up-19-Percent-Versus-Year-Ago/Page1.html comScore, Inc., today released an update of holiday season e-commerce spending for the first 57 days of the 2007 holiday season (November 1 – December 27). Nearly $28 billion has been spent online during the season-to-date, marking a 19-percent gain versus the corresponding days last year. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/98/1/CNNYou-Tube-Debate-Wrap-Up/Page1.html The eight candidates vying to be the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 elections answered questions submitted by CNN and YouTube users in a debate Wednesday night. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/97/1/For-Radiohead-Fans-Does-Free---Download--Freeload/Page1.html 2 out of 5 Downloaders are Willing to Pay an Average of $6 for “In Rainbows” Album.  U.S. Downloaders are Willing to Pay More than International Counterparts. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/96/1/Japanese-Cell-Phones-Ward-Off-Gropers/Page1.html Mobile communications usage is expanding rapidly, and new applications abound.. Here’s news about one application whose time has come. This is a top application being downloaded by a multitude of Japanese women who use the very crowded Tokyo subway system. The anti-groping software program is meant to fend off perverts in the crowded Japanese subway trains news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/95/1/The-Next-Big-Thing-User-Contributed-Metadata/Page1.html We know all about user-generated content, masses of users contributing to burgeoning Web corpus. It’s a manifestation of Web 2.0, the participatory Net, which companies like Google (YouTube), Yahoo (Flickr), Fox (MySpace), etc. are feasting on. In parallel, users are contributing a potentially far more lucrative Web currency–metadata about themselves. It’s the currency that will help Facebook grow into its $15 billion valuation. In addition, users are also contributing structured (meta) data about data, which will help the semantic Web to flower. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700