Media Trends for 2011

E-books outselling print books, week after holidays – USA Today
Perhaps 2011 will finally be the year of the E-book. This week’s USA Today bestselling list will show that the E-book version of the top six books will have outsold the paper versions. Though this could be an artifact of many people getting E-book readers for Christmas.
The 2011 Media Landscape – Nielsen Wire
According to the researchers at Nielsen, 2011 will not be the year of 3D TV, we’re into smartphones in a big way, and lots of us have lots of televisions. Read the whole report.
Pew Center Report says TV still top source of national/international news, but Internet is coming on strong
There are a lot of these kinds of reports out there, but quite frankly the Pew reports are the ones worth paying attention to.
NYT’s David Carr on 2011 and media
Nothing startling here, though I think he’s weak on mobile media.
Retro Moment – TIME magazine’s 1979 take on the future of this cable television thing.