Research & Analysis

A Christmas Story

The Wall Street Journal reported on a press release that Comscore, a company that tracks just about everything online, released. Comscore has forcasted flat growth for the 2008 holiday e-commerce spending. They report an unprecedented 4-Percent decline during the first 23 days of November vs. corresponding shopping days in 2007.

What I found interesting in the WSJ article was a comment at the bottom by someone lamenting the demise of the shopping experience in Shopping Malls.

The Reading Habits of Americans

Even though they sit at the well-spring of a globe-spanning media industry that lays bare their smallest hopes and fears, Americans still have the capacity to surprise us. Today’s surprise? This fascinating study, commissioned by Random House, executed by Zogby International. It is packed with all kinds of intriguing tidbits about that most understudied species, The Reading American.

Is Email Archaic?

It’s all about the data and Mary Meeker is considered by many of the digerati to be queen of the data of the internet. Her influential state-of-the-nation presentations look at data points that help us understand what has happened in the internet industry within the last few years, and the most likely places for substantial growth in the next phase of this industry.

In classic BookNet style here is a ranking of top websites 2005 vs. 2008…