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"E-readers are a transitional technology," says Rotman Epps of Forrester Research. Which means that just when the e-reader is taking off, it may be becoming obsolete.
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Does he not understand the attraction of most eReaders is that they're based on eInk which makes them much easier to read for prolongued amounts of time?
Plenty of people who only want to read for 10 minutes or 1/2 hour would be perfectly happy reading on their smartphones, laptop or tablet but for those who enjoy spending hours at a time reading it's really hard to beat eInk (even though you can use a PDA for a long time, I used to too, but the eInk display is just so much easier on my eyes).
If the devices are transitional what is it that is going to replace them? We already have smartphones, netbooks, laptops and tablets. Unless laptop/tablet displays improved to work the same way as eInk for readability but had the refresh speeds and colour depth of a standard monitor and battery life is increased further, I don't see eReaders going anywhere.