The Future of the Information Content Industry: A Summertime Update

The last Briefing we publish each year is an industry outlook,recapping the past year and looking ahead to trends and issuesthat the Information Content Industry will face in the coming year.As we published Outlook 2001 in December, we foresaw the Yearof Accountability and indicated that the heyday of the dot.comera was closing. During the first six months of this year theeconomic downturn has pulled the rug out from under many ofour industry's participants. We decided to augment last year'soutlook with a mid-year update, given the severity of the yearand the pace with which the industry is changing.