All the people quoted in this article have a specific agenda.
In the second half of 2010 and 2011 tablets will crush netbooks, not readers. Phones could crush readers if they had the right screen technology and would still fit comfortably in your pocket while having at least a 6" display. So while tablets will outsell readers (mostly due to all the hype), the tablet users will not buy a lot of reading materials, on average.
What will really crush readers? When tablets, computers, readers all merge into one. Then laptops and readers will disappear, or laptops will be usable as both tablets and laptops.
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