02.08. 2010 MONEY + NUMBERS counting the news... |
Decline in newsstand sales for Time Magazine for last quarter of 2009
34.9%
34.9%
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Decline in newsstand sales for Newsweek for last quarter of 2009
Decline in newsstand sales for Newsweek for last quarter of 2009
41.3%
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Amazon's current e-book royalty rate for authors
70%
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Amazon e-book royalty rate offered last month to
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Amazon e-book royalty rate offered last month to
Paolo Coelho, Ian McEwan and others
50%
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Standard author's royalty rate from traditional book publishers
25%
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Maximum amount of venture capital AppFund is offering
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Maximum amount of venture capital AppFund is offering
upstarts to develop their apps for the iPad
$500,000
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Number of apps Apple will make available for its iPad launch
140,000
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Number of weeks Avatar reigned as #1 at the box office
7
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7
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Weekend gross for Dear John, the new #1 movie
$32.4 million
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Female percentage of Dear John audience
82
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82
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Record number of Super Bowl viewers
106.5M
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Fallen record number of M*A*S*H viewers for series finale in 1983
106M
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Previous Super Bowl record, Steelers vs. Cardinals, set in 2009
98.7M
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Sources: New York Times, Gigaom, AppFund, IMDB, Reuters NewsSip
Photo Credit: Daniel Case
