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E-Card Industry Collapsing Since No One's Reading the Greetings

E-Card Industry Mercifully Collapsing?
Apparently this year, the e-card business, those obnoxious animated things sent by distant family members and formerly tech-savvy friends who stopped learning about new technology in 1997, is taking a massive financial beating. Apparently no one is sending them (someone should tell our inbox, we're still getting quite a few), no one is reading them (guilty as charged), and no one is willing to pay for them.

American Greetings, an Ohio based greeting card company, saw its third quarter profits go from $29 million in 2007, to a loss of $193.3 million in 2008.

Not that we enjoying seeing people loss money and jobs, mind you, but we'll be extremely happy if we never have to open another e-mail from a person we haven't seen in three years featuring a poorly animated snowball fight. For that, we've got Facebook! [From: paidContent.org]
Have you sent out holiday greeting cards or videos?
Yes125 (35.2%)
No230 (64.8%)

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