On Wednesday morning Apple revealed the latest stats on iTunes video: users have downloaded 1 billion TV episodes and 380 million movies total, at the rate of 800,000 TV episodes and over 350,000 movies per day. Combined with the company’s recent revelation that it has 575 million active iTunes(s AAPL) accounts now, one interesting takeaway is that, while the number of iTunes accounts has grown substantially in the last five years, the amount users are spending on video hasn’t changed very much.
Horace Dediu made some calculations and plotted all of the data on a chart over at his Asymco blog:
Based on these latest numbers, Dediu calculated how much iTunes users spend per year on different types of media. He says it’s “about $9/yr on Software, $2/yr on books, $16/yr on apps $12/yr on music and $4/yr on video.”
On one hand, this chart backs up something we already…
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The link below is to an article and free self-publishing guide, ‘From Print to Kindle & Beyond.’
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-your-guide-to-self-publishing-from-print-to-kindle-beyond/
The link below is to a book review of ‘Killer Dads,’ by Mary Papenfuss.
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http://blogcritics.org/book-review-killer-dads-by-mary-papenfuss/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the latest improvements to Calibre, the ebook management software. This update improves Microsoft Word ebook conversion.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/calibre-improves-microsoft-word-ebook-conversion-tools_b36941
The link below is to a book review of ‘Red Nile – A Biography of the World’s Greatest River,’ by Robert Twigger.
For more visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/16/red-nile-robert-twigger-review
Chapter 8: The Yellow C
Chapter 8 of The Tin Ticket brings a mixture of news for the three main characters of The Tin Ticket to this point. The conclusion of the previous chapter recorded the birth of William, the son of Janet Houston. This chapter begins with the reunion of old friends in Agnes and Janet, along with Ludlow Tedder. Sadly it also delivers the terrible news of William’s death, not long after Janet’s return to Cascades, following the forced separation of mother and child. The heartbreaking scene of a convict child’s burial and the resulting depression is only broken when Janet and Agnes are again reunited, and soon after they in turn are reunited with Ludlow Tedder in the Crime Class at Cascades.
However, there is good news also, as all three are released from their servitude by the end of the chapter. Agnes and Janet complete their time, while Ludlow is granted a Ticket of Leave for good behaviour. The chapter ends with a reunited Ludlow Tedder and her daughter, before the final conclusion of the chapter with the marriage of Ludlow Tedder to a free settler, the widower William Manley Chambers. There is now the promise of a new beginning for all three women – Agnes, Janet and Ludlow (along with Arabella). What will the future hold?
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The article linked to below takes a look at a question many people have about ebook reading – what does it do to your eyes?
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http://www.bdlive.co.za/blogs/2013/06/13/are-e-books-good-for-your-eyes
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