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Originally Posted by RWood
In a recent study on e-book readers by the CleantechGroup they estimated that the total US market for e-book readers was slightly more than 1,000,000 units, increasing to 14.4 million in 2012. Of that, 45% were Kindles, 30% Sonys, and the remaining 25% divided among the remaining brands.
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Thanks for posting this. It seems the topic has drifted a wee bit.
But here's my two cents about the press release:
I'd like to see the actual report, but $2195 per year is a little steep!
As it is, I'm very skeptical about the carbon-offset claims, coming as they do from an organization that is in no way unbiased in the conclusions they want to put forth to their partners and investors. I wish it were true, but I think it's far from clear that even a massive shift away from printed books to using electronic reading devices would have significant, or any, environmental benefits. At least I doubt it's been studied in any rigorous way. I think this is largely self-promotion.
The 50% Amazon, 35% Sony breakdown and total sales figures seem as good a guess as any but it's not a figure I have much confidence in. Things are very dynamic lately, and hopefully will remain that way for the benefit of us consumers. And in making their case for ebook readers, they really should look at projected sales worldwide rather than just the US.
(I now return you to the Sony v. Kindle thread this has become...)
I have a K2, but am interested in getting a 300 as a second reader that I can play with: smaller, real PDF/ePub support, works with ADE, can borrow from libraries etc. I have some questions about it, but I'll take them over to the Sony forum.