[TheJohnNewton]

As DMcCunney says above it will happen when the screens improve to the point that ereaders and general portable computing devices become one. Bascially what is needed is color, a good size, and a refresh rate that will support interactive business applications. Everyone who works in my office needs these things to get their jobs done. We don't sit around reading documents for hours and hours, we sit around working on documents for hours and hours along with using Word, Excel and other specialized business applications. Right now everyone has a laptop. If the screen were more readable that would be a bonus but it's not critical. I rarely print off documents now as the readability of a laptop screen is good enough for my work purposes. Plus at our desks we all dock the laptop and use large lcd monitors, some people even have dual monitors. What exactly would a dedicated ereader buy us in this environment? So to answer you directly I don't see a dedicated ebook reader ever becoming an essential general enterprise business tool. They are too specialized.

BTW, some background on me, I've worked in the IT department of a large (60,000 plus) global (we are in almost every country in the world) company for 19 years. We deploy standarized computing solutions to these 60,000 employees.