Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk. Sci-fi and self-help. Even paranormal romance, where vampires seduce virgins and elves bonk trolls.

The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ: SCOR), currently the most fashionable collector of digital evidence extant) had 44.8m unique visitors in December, while our own dear Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) had 45.3m. Manhattan’s…

The six-year slowdown in digital music’s commercial growth rate ended in 2011, when digital trade revenue grew eight percent to $5.2 billion, according to the IFPI industry umbrella group’s annual Digital Music Report.

Is 2012 the year of the Smart TV? Manufacturers would have us believe that.

E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new owners began filling gifted gadgets with titles.

In absence of detailed Kindle sales data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), the consumer research group YouGov has taken a stab.

2011 UK music sales volume figures are in, showing a continuation of the same patterns, according to Official Charts Company data (via BPI).

This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. According to figures from ZenithOptimedia, global advertising revenues will reach $486 billion…

Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west.

Mobile phone networks, get your houses in order. Here is how much mobile data consumption is expected to grow in the next four years…

We often see national and international breakdowns of newspaper website popularity, but rarely by continent.

Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but when it comes to making money for developers, it looks like Apple’s iPhone app storefront is still very much in the lead. And freemium looks…

Italians are twice as likely to pay for digital content as consumers in some other major nations.

The UK internet population actually fell by one percent in the year to July, according to Nielsen data in Ofcom’s International Communication Market Report 2011.

Imagine a land where mobile advertising meets all the lofty forecasts. That land is Japan, which is showing the industry the future of the sector…

Samsung phones overtook iPhone for U.S. brand perception in the week after Samsung launched a TV campaign mocking hipster fanboys and iPhone’s battery.

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is again gaining search share in a market it already overwhelmingly dominates.

It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfectly with ye olde analogue print magazines’ best qualities.

Need another indicator for how mobile is exploding in China? Look to search… Average daily searches this fall (Q3) hit 718 million, according to EnfoDesk and Analysys International.