I'd like to have seen some good stats in that article, at least a table showing yearly sales of ebook readers.
I went and checked the idpf.org site, and they have some statistics on yearly sales of ebooks, and from the time series model I fit on it, the predictions for 2010 quarterly sales are:
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fit upr lwr
2010 Q1 65.11370 68.62323 61.60418
2010 Q2 74.26938 81.79566 66.74309
2010 Q3 83.27929 95.64092 70.91767
2010 Q4 92.69493 110.60125 74.78861
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So being conservative, 2010 end of year sales would be at around 74.7 million u.s. dollars, and that is not including international sales b.t.w.