Digital Media, Entertainment Use Growing, Says CCIA Report

Consumer use of digital media and entertainment products in the U.S. is growing, said a Computer & Communications Industry Association-commissioned report released Thursday (http://bit.ly/1se2sx8). The report’s authors used several sources for the report, including the MPAA, the Pew Research Center and BookStats, it said. Music consumers legally bought 118 billion songs in 2013, it said. The video industry, which is “driven by online services,” is projected to exceed $36 billion revenue by 2017, it said. The e-book market grew from a $64 million industry in 2008 to $3 billion in 2012, it said.