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October 3rd, 2009

Ereaders seen to be top holiday items

By Paul Biba

images-1.jpegReuters is reporting this in a recent article. According to them analysis are watching sales closely and expecting them to be big sellers, especially with the new devices that are coming on line.

“ISuppli expects global sales of e-readers to top 5 million this year from about 1 million last year. It remains to be seen whether the current crop of readers morph into something with richer features, or tablets swoop in to define the market.”

According to the article, the Kindle 2 has about 60 percent of the market share, but more people read books on their iPhones and Touches than on Kindles and Sony Readers taken together.

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One Response to “Ereaders seen to be top holiday items”

  1. Shouldn’t the second sentence read:

    According to them, analysts…

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