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Think there’s no money in self-publishing? Think again. Lulu.com has produced an infographic exploring some key metrics about self-publishing and it is pretty compelling. According to the graphic, Lulu.com authors have earned a total of $36 million in 10 years.

We’ve embedded the whole infographic below–all publishers should be aware of the growing business of self-publishing.

Check it out: “Who’s making the money? [Out of] authors earning over $25K, 56 percent of authors earned more than $25,000, 28 percent earned more than $50,000, 15 percent earned more than $100,000.”

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App development company LemonLabs has made an infographic to help developers and graphic designers with team work. The graphic gives tips to these professionals so that hopefully everybody’s job is made easier.

We’ve embedded the whole infographic below–all app making professionals need to pay attention to the workflow of designing apps.

Check it out: “Developers are not photoshop gurus & designers hate to remake their own work so we made a guide for designers to make great iOS app designs and ship correct files to the developer.” Read more

Given the recent rumors of a new iPhone with a larger screen, I thought it might be useful to post a brief history of the iPhone.

The infographic embedded below charts the iPhone from when it was just a gleam in Steve’s eye to the iPhone 4S. You get to watch as the iPhone moves from having a mere nine percent of the market to its current 30 percent of the US market. All in all, it’s an interesting read. Read more

Dot Com Infoway created an infographic called “Apponomics: The World of Mobile Apps” exploring some key statistics about iOS, Android and Windows apps.

We’ve embedded the whole infographic below–all media professionals need to pay attention to these changes, they show where app users are headed over the next three years.

Check it out: “According to the infographic’s statistics, there are 585,000 apps on the Apple store, 450,000 apps on the Android market and 82,234 apps available at present on Microsoft’s store. An interesting fact is that more than 300,000 mobile apps have been developed in the last three years.”

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Will mobile apps overwhelm our networks with excessive usage?

In an eye-opening infographic by Kevin Lane (embedded below), you can see how many network connections are being made by your smartphone every day.

Check it out: “Could The Signaling Storm Become a Hurricane? Android users have an average of 35 apps. There are more than 300 million Android smartphones worldwide.The chattiest apps can generate upwards of 2,400 network signaling events per hour. Most of the time without user knowledge. This could amount to up to 25,200,000,000,000 signaling events per hour worldwide!”

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Apple has been posting record setting profits, quarter after quarter, and it’s already earned the title “richest tech company in the world”. But did you ever wonder what that really means?

This infographic provides some startling details which answer that question. For example, an old way to measure the size of a corporation is to compare its revenue with that of national budgets of various countries. Apple is a little too big for that. Apple’s income in 2011 was bigger than the GDP of over 100 countries in the world, including New Zealand, Syria, and Ecuador.

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The first movie in The Hunger Games series is now in theaters, and it is doing quite well.  But how well is it doing when compared to other adaptations?

Tauntr gathered together a number of obscure and fascinating details on the movie adaptations of various books, including a list of titles that you might be surprised to find out where adaptations. This infographic also covers some of the more predictable details like The Postman and BattleField: Earth as being 2  of the larger adaptation failures.

I find this infographic more interesting for what it misses. For example, they could have included a section for the authors with the most adaptations (Ian Fleming & PK Dick would be my guess). It also misses some surprise adaptations like Children of Man and Fatherland.

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Have you ever been stumped when trying to decide what SF or fantasy eBook you should read next? Check out this flow chart. SF Signal has created The Top 100 SciFi & Fantasy Books Flowchart, a decision tree based NPR’s list of the top 100 books. It is immense and highly detailed, and it asks questions I had never even though of.

Click on it for a larger version.

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Widespread digital textbook adoption has been predicted to be right around the corner for several years now, but in reality fewer than 3% of students were using them in late 2011.

But now some think that might have changed. 350 thousand digital textbooks were downloaded to iBooks in the first few days after iBooks 2 was launched. Read more

eCampus.com put together this fun infographic on college students and how they use digital textbooks.

The infographic shows that most students are using the digital textbooks on their laptops, and 48% bought them because of the lower cost. Read more