Information Industry: An Overview

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to outline the concept and characteristics of information industry and then examine the various types of industries that are associated with the information and also describes the information personals. It is the industry which is related to creation/production, organization, and dissemination of the content or information and makes profit out of them. This is the platform for the information professionals to produce and sell the information. The paper also shows how the technologies have changed the industry and how the information is very easy to get access in this technological environment.