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I don't see how a tablet would distract me from reading any more than a computer, a TV, phone, doorbell or the occasional need to socialize with real live people.
Speaking for myself, I read when I want to read. I may stop reading and play a game, or even to sleep, but that is because I want to stop reading. Theoretically I never want to stop reading, but as I have gotten older, I find 100 pages at a go is often my limit.
IMO both tablets and Eink readers will continue to increase ebook sales for a while yet.
Those who want to read have generally managed to read without either, and those who don't want to read will not want to read any more than they ever did.
The big market increase is possibly due to those who like to read, but could not find time to go to a bookstore or library. Now it is so easy to get the book you want when you want it, and fairly convenient to always have a reading device with you, many of us are like kids in a candy store.
Ebook sales will eventually level out to some extent, but why should they decline? If I want to read I read, if I want to play a game I play a game. Nothing different for me that using a tablet to read sometimes has changed.
Helen
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