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Fascinating Media Convergence Stats from the Economist.

• Well over 1,000,000 books are published worldwide every year.
• A Google Book Search scanner can digitize 1,000 pages every hour.
• Americans have access to: 1,000,000,000,000 web pages, 65,000 iPhone apps, 10,500 radio stations, 5,500 magazines, 200+ cable tv networks.
• There are 240,000,000 TVs in the US. 2,000,000 are in bath rooms.
• Newspaper circulation is down 7 million over the last 25 years.
• In the last 5 years, unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million.
• This year traditional advertising is in decilne: Newspapers down 18.7%, TV down 10.1%, Radio down 11.7%, Magazines down 14.8%.
• Digital advertising is growing rapidly (9.2%, mobile up 18.1%)
• 47% of broadcast television viewers say they’d pay for ad-less programming.
• More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last two months than if ABC, NBC & CBS  had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948.
• ABC, NBC & CBS have been around for a combined 200 years and get 250 Million viewers per month collectively. MySpace, YouTube and Facebook did not exist 6 years ago but get 250 million unique visitors each month collectively.
• 40 million people have been Rickroll’d.
• 95% of all songs downloaded last year were NOT paid for.
• Wikipedia launched in 2001 and features 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.
• Cisco’s Nexus 7000 data switch could move all of Wikipedia in 0.001 seconds.
• The average American Teen sends 2,272 text messages each month.
• Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second.
• 93% of US adults own a cell phone, 1/3 don’t feel save using it for purchases.
• Dell claims to have earned 3 Million USD via Twitter posts since 2007.
• In Feburary 2008 John McCain raised 11 Million for is US presidential bid. In the same month Obama attended no campaign fundraisers. Instead he leveraged online social networks to rase 55 Million.
• 90% of the 200 billon emails sent every day are spam.
• Mobile devices will be the world’s primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020.
• The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerfull and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one at MIT in 1965.

For more information, http://mediaconvergence.economist.com and http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com