Much has been written about the profoundly negative effect that the Internet has had on the newspaper business.
So many readers have switched to the Web for information that sales of the printed papers — and advertising revenue that brings in the money to publish them — have plummeted.
Last year alone, 105 U.S. newspapers went out of business, and 10,000 newspaper jobs were lost. So the Internet has not been a blessing for a lot of newspaper, magazine, and book publishers.
But what about other businesses?
According to the latest study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and researchers at Elon University in North Carolina, the Internet is making
