Initial 2019 sales data isn’t great for both print books and ebooks, according to a report in Publishers Weekly from BookExpo in NYC: After six straight years of growth in print sales, 2019 is off to a rocky start for publishers. At a late morning session dubbed The State of the Publishing Industry Today, David...

While the internet undoubtedly made it much easier to publish a product — be it a piece of music, a book, a magazine, a movie or tv show, or anything else that can be divided into ones and zeros — it’s become increasingly difficult to find an audience in this era. There are a plethora of ways to distribute a...

Podcasting has been a growth industry this year, particularly after Spotify announced its intentions to rapidly expand into podcasting back in February. Podcasting is still a tiny industry compared to radio, but recent moves by both Spotify and Google are beginning to lay the foundation for podcasting to eat into...

The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of intense growth with e-commerce startups. During 1998, eBay went public, Paypal was founded, Amazon.com was spending big to “expand its reach” and Pets.com launched. Also started in the late 90s, but with much less...

This post as it looked in 2011. As part of our annual review of the Web, we single out a big Internet company that has impressed us the most over the calendar year. The first Best BigCo was chosen back in 2004, so this is the 8th year we've done this. Only four companies have won it up till now. Google has been our...

This post as it looked in 2011. This time last year I listed my favorite Web products of 2010. I enjoyed that process so much that I'm doing it again this year. These are products that I liked and used the most during 2011, but I hope my list is useful to others too. I wondered whether my top 10 products for 2011...

This post as it looked in 2011. Every year since 2004, ReadWriteWeb has selected a best "little company." These are small companies (loosely defined as less than 100 employees) that have had a big effect on the Web over the calendar year. Last year we chose Tumblr, which experienced extraordinary growth during 2010....

This post as it looked in 2010. At the end of every year, ReadWriteWeb reviews the progress (or otherwise) of big Internet organizations and names one of them our 'Best BigCo.' We started this tradition in 2004, making this the 7th year. In 2009 it was Google, thanks to Chrome, Android and other advancements. In...

This post as it looked in 2010. Every year since 2004, ReadWriteWeb has selected a best 'little company.' In past years we've given this honor to Flickr, 37Signals, YouTube (in 2006, the year it was acquired by Google), Twitter (in 2007, before it went mainstream), Zoho, and Aardvark. As you can see, many of these...

This post as it looked in 2010. This month ReadWriteWeb is publishing a series of top 10 lists of the best products of 2010, each based on a specific category. This post is a little different, in that it's my own personal top 10 list of my favorite products of 2010. I'm not claiming these are the best products of...

This post as it looked in 2009. Don't worry, it's not Twitter! For our Best LittleCo of 2009, we've chosen a small company whose product launched in 2009 and quickly became a leading example of one of the year's big trends: the real-time web. Our pick for Most Promising is something that could change the way people...

This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over the past 12 months. Today we're announcing the 6th annual Best BigCo, a.k.a. big Internet company. Next week we'll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising...