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2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 5 - Wrap-Up and Digital
February 23 2011
In this final post, (Posts 1-4 are found here), I will provide a summary of the first four posts, provide some insight into a view of top Authors, and include some data on electronic books and how parts of the digital world are surpassing the print world. read moreFebruary 22 2011
The Future of The Book During lunch at TOC on Wednesday, we had a roundtable discussion at that centered on The Future of the Book. The conversation touched many different areas as you would expect. From distribution and inventory, to pricing and formats, to audience ownership and engagement. It was… read moreFebruary 22 2011
During lunch at TOC last week, we had a roundtable discussion that centered on the future of the book. The conversation touched on many different areas as you would expect: from distribution and inventory, to pricing and formats, to audience ownership and engagement. read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 4 - The Languages
February 21 2011
In this fourth post (posts one, two and three are found here) on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall, the market for programming languages was down -6.27% in 2010 when compared with 2009. There… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 3 - The Publishers
February 17 2011
In this third installment, (see Post 1 and Post 2; Post 4 & 5 to come soon), we will look at how publishers fared in 2010, as compared to 2009. The chart below shows our dashboard view of the large publishers' results for 2010. The most notable piece of information… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 2 - The Categories
February 14 2011
In this second installment (the first post can be found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six "Category Families"—Systems and Programming, Web Design and Development, Business Applications, Digital Media Applications, Consumer Operating Systems and Devices, and Computer Topics.… read more2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 1 - Overall Market
February 10 2011
As you can see, the computer market is down about 4% from last year. It should be noted that the computer book market makes up only about 1% of total unit sales in bookstores and online retailers. If you would like to see the performance of the major categories, this… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - November 2009
December 07 2009
This is the sixth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of November and different sources such as klout.com, tweetsentiment.com, twopular.com, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.com. I have included Twitter Trends which is simply… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - October 2009
November 04 2009
Twitter Approval Matrix - October 2009 read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - August 2009
September 06 2009
This is the fourth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of August and different sources such as Hashtags.org, scraping archives, and observations. read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - July 2009
August 12 2009
This is the third post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of July and different sources such as Hashtag.org, scraping archives, and observations. read moreState of the Computer Book Market - Mid-Year 2009
July 24 2009
The market has been on a steady decline since mid-2008 and has continued downward right through the first half of 2009. And there are very few signs that the book-buying slump is going to turn around anytime soon. Overall, the market saw 595,821 fewer units sold in the first half… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - June 2009
July 02 2009
A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. For this post, I've limited the data and activity to the month of June. read moreJune 09 2009
This matrix shows four quadrants used to describe tastes found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. The Y-axis is partly analytical and shows popularity (mostly through scraped numbers) or perceived popularity (in the future nominated by you). The other part of the grid is more curated… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 5 -- eBooks and Summary
February 27 2009
In this final post, 1, 2, 3, and 4 were posted earlier, we will provide a summary of the first four posts and include some data on electronic books and how the digital world is catching up the the print world. read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 -- The Languages
February 25 2009
In this fourth post (parts one, two and three are found here) on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall the market for programming languages was down 5.9% in 2008 when compared with 2007. There… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 3: The Publishers
February 23 2009
In this third installment, (see part one and part two; part four to come later this week), we will look at how Publishers fared in 2007 when compared to 2006. The chart below shows our dashboard view of the Large publishers’ results for 2007. The most notable factor is that… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 2: The Technologies
February 20 2009
In this second installment (the first post is found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six "Category Families" -- Systems and Programming, Web Design and Development, Business Applications, Digital Media Applications, Consumer Operating Systems and Devices, and Other.… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 1: The Market
February 17 2009
What you won't see on this chart is that the computer book market cratered in 2001, shrinking twenty percent a year for three years until it stabilized in 2004 at about half the size that it was in 2000. ... Web Page Creation 4.77% -15.57% Large category with 42 new… read moreSeptember 27 2008
Is Adobe worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. read moreIgnite Boston 4 -- Videos Uploaded
September 23 2008
Ignite Boston 4 was an interesting and insightful event. We have many things to take away as we plan our next event for January. read moreIgnite Boston 4, This Thursday
September 08 2008
Ignite Boston 4 is this Thursday at the Hooley House in the Faneuil Hall area of Boston from 6:00 pm until ~10:00. read moreAugust 27 2008
The fourth Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, September 11, from 6 to 10pm at the Hooley House, one block from Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA. THIS IS A LARGER VENUE. So the acoustics will be better than our last event and there will be room to sit, stand and… read moreMay 23 2008
beer, boston, cambridge, conversation, geeks, ignite, microsoft, o'reilly, tech talks read moreMay 07 2008
The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm in Harvard Square read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Part 4 - The Languages
March 07 2008
We will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall the 2007 market for programming languages was down (1.67%) in 2007 when compared with 2006. There were 1,809,695 units sold in 2006 versus 1,779,523 units sold in 2007 which is (30,172) less units in… read moreState of the Computer Book Market, part 3 -- The Publishers
March 03 2008
In this third installment we will look at how Publishers fared in 2007 when compared to 2006. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Part 2: The Technologies
February 22 2008
Recapping the big picture from the last post, you can see that the moderate-to-high growth of Consumer Operating Systems has not been visibly aided by the addition of 47 new Q1 '07 Vista titles, because there were no Vista titles in '06 -- hence the black box for Vista. However,… read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market
February 21 2008
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market focuses on comparing 2006 with 2007. read moreDecember 21 2007
When I saw the OLPC I just had to tinker around with it. So on an hour train ride home I explored the little OLPC and was quite impressed. read moreAugust 30 2007
There will be some short "launches," followed by lightening talks, and a couple of other ideas that we will inform you of in the coming weeks.... Another reason we wanted to announce this event this early, is so those of you who would like speak for five minutes on something… read moreAugust 04 2007
Summer is flying by and as we usher in fall, we wanted to give all New Englanders a heads-up that we are having a second Ignite Boston. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Part Four - Programming Languages Q1 07
May 17 2007
In this fourth post [one, two and three are found here] on the State of the Computer Book Market, I will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. read moreMay 15 2007
The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10 pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Part 3 - The Publishers
May 15 2007
In this third installment, (part one, part two and part four later this week), we will look at how Publishers fared in the first quarter of 2007. The chart below shows our dashboard view of the Large publishers' results... read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Part 2 - The Technologies
May 10 2007
In this second installment (the first post is found here), I'll look at specific technologies and will drill in on the areas a bit more. read moreState of the Computer Book Market, Q107, part 1 - Overall Market
May 07 2007
This post is the first of a series on the state of the computer book market. First you need a quick summary on where these data, and our interpretations, come from. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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