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 Online retail wins, but still fails to deliverBy Paul Hudson |
The flurry of retail Christmas trading statements is over. And without a doubt the winners were online retail. This year, online retail scored a bigger and more significant win than ever before – average spend per online shopper was up by a massive £25 per head, a 15% increase from 2010. By contrast, high street shoppers spent on average £13 less than in 2010. So online retail was clear winners.
However, on closer inspection, our research (conducted through our syndicated online resea...
How the Kindle will revolutionise readingBy Paul Hudson |
I recently blogged about books dying quicker than CDs. This Christmas, the Kindle (and other e-readers) was the tech gift of the year. Without a doubt, this was the gadget to give. Our Christmas research highlighted this trend with 24% of all tech gifts being an e-reader. To me, the most significant...
Books will die quicker than CDsBy Paul Hudson |
When it came, the digital music revolution was relatively swift. We can argue about how predictable it was and whether the music industry was caught on the back foot, but when Apple released the iPod in 2001 it revolutionised the music industry for good. The impact can be seen today with music shops such as HMV regularly issuing profit warnings.
Yet when we analyse the timeline the death of the physical CD has been relatively slow, it has taken a whole decade and the CD is still alive...