statistics and societies

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     sites and pages

The Metrics & Net Statistics guide highlights some estimates of the size of the web - number of registrations, sites, links, pages.

     non-digital benchmarks

new titles published in US in 1996 - 68,000

journals published in US in 1998 - 12,000

global number of newspaper titles in 2000 - 8,391 dailies

weekly and monthly magazine titles - 73,000

est volume of paper for books, magazines, newspapers - 130 million tons pa

     infotainment

In 1999 North American sales of educational CD-ROMS amounted to US$424 million. Videogame industry sales (software and hardware) were US$6.3 billion. The box office for movies was US$6.9 billion.

The Software Publishers Association reported sales of US$359.8 million for home education software in North America in the first half of 1996. 'Entertainment titles' amounted to US$298.4 million.























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