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I've never seen the contest between eReaders and tablets as being between eInk and LCD. Those of us who read a lot make our own decisions on personal preference, and many of us have both. I'm in the camp of having several tablets and several eInk readers, and the eInk is what I read on for long periods of time. The tablets are better for short bursts, like reading a magazine. Bright, flashy and handy, but not what I chose to read on for long periods of time.
I may walk out of the house without my Apple mini, but never without an eInk reader.
For most others, I think it's really more a competition between netbooks/laptops and tablets. People who want a portable computer to carry around didn't all cotton to the netbooks or laptop sizes or power demands. My husband is a computer guy, through and through, and we've only had one laptop through out all the years (which he hated) and we never had a netbook because neither one of us liked the size. He has a laptop for work and hates it as well. But we have a slew of different tablets, because the size fits us a lot better.
(Hubby blames it on Star Trek. He says you can't grow up wanting their hand held devices and not feel like a laptop is just not quite 'there'. LOL)
So I don't think it's the eReaders tablets are crowding out, it's the laptops. That's who they're competing against.
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