I should have started with this article from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2035666.html
Quote:
Take Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc, which makes most of the monochrome displays for devices such as Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook. After five years of heady growth during which shipments rose 100-fold, it got a jolt at the end of 2011 when monthly revenues dropped 91 percent in two months.
"The bottom fell out of the market," says E Ink Chief Marketing Officer Sriram Peruvemba.
|
Quote:
|
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that of those Americans over 30 who read e-books, less than half do so on an e-reader. For those under 30, the number falls to less than a quarter.
|