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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
I didn't see that one coming, to be honest. I can see how it would be that way, but I figured that tablets would be more prevalent than dedicated e-readers.
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They're more expensive, and other than the Nook, aren't nicely tied to an ebook store. (Well, the iPad is, but the price is so extreme that it's not selling to the ebook market; it's selling to the Malusaphiliacs.) They're also newer; dedicated ebook readers have been around 10 years, and serious market share kicked in about three years ago; tablets bigger than a phone are much younger.
Tablets will probably eventually outnumber dedicated ereaders, but unless tablet software/hardware developers put some serious thought into making them excellent for ebooks, the dedicated devices will continue to have a share of the market. Right now, AFAIK, none of the tablets has a good "all your ebooks go HERE" solution that shows all the ebooks it can read in one place (the app system conflicts with that), and their ebook functionality is dependent on 3rd-party apps and not integrated with the hardware.