From Aptara and Publishers Weekly: Publishers Weekly (PW) magazine and Aptara announce that initial results from the 4th Annual eBook Survey of Publishers, conducted in April, reveal a 100% year-over-year increase in the number of publishers making greater than 10% of their annual revenues from eBooks (36% of eBook publishers surveyed as compared to 18% [...]
Survey Reveals 100% Increase in Publishers Making Double-Digit Annual Revenues from eBooks
Filed by on June 5, 2012
Bowker Releases 2011 U.S. Book Publishing Market Statistics & New Book Output Chart (by ISBN)
Filed by on June 5, 2012
From Bowker: Bowker [has] released its annual report on U. S. print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that traditional print book output grew six percent in 2011, from 328,259 titles in 2010 to a projected 347,178 in 2011, driven [...]
Netflix Surpasses Apple to Take Lead in U.S. Online Movie Business in 2011
Filed by on June 4, 2012
From the IHS Suppli Data Announcement: Riding a tidal wave of growth for subscription video on demand (SVOD), Netflix Inc. in 2011 surged past Apple Inc. to become the largest U.S. online movie service in revenue terms, according to a new IHS Screen Digest Broadband Media Market Insight Report from information and analytics provider IHS. [...]
New Cisco Forecast Projects the Internet Will Be Four Times as Large (1.3 Zettabytes) in Four Years
Filed by on May 30, 2012
From Cisco: Today, Cisco issued results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyze Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide. The VNI Forecast update covers 2011-2016, and quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected to travel public and private networks, including [...]
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report 2012 Now Online
Filed by on May 30, 2012
This new 112 page report loaded with Internet statistics that might be of interest to you and/or colleagues not to mention its value as a reference resource. Mary Meeker is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. The report was presented today at the D10 Conference and is embedded [...]
Guest Post: Where is the “Big Data” for Libraries? by Matt Weaver
Filed by on May 24, 2012
Editors Note Matt Weaver is the Web Librarian at Westlake Porter Public Library (Westlake, Ohio) and a board member for Library Renewal. Matt is also a great friend and supporter of infoDOCKET. For example, just about daily he shares news items and new resources that we share with all of you. Today, in his first [...]
Update: Database Statistics: MEDLINE Citation Counts by Year of Publication
Filed by on May 18, 2012
Statistics for 2011 are now available. Years of publication Total # Citations # Citations Published in US % Citations Published in US 2011* 736,191 324,046 44% 2010 828,527 351,484 42% 2009 791,388 340,028 43% 2008 765,837 333,708 44% 2007 728,929 317,319 44% MEDLINE Citation Counts and Methodology Pre-1947 – 2011 available here See Also: More [...]
Reference: Just Released: U.S. National, State and County Population Estimates by Demographic Characteristics: July 1, 2011
Filed by on May 17, 2012
From the U.S. Census: The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race [...]
