For the most part, the "industry experts" are just giving finger-in-the-wind guesstimates. They don't really know any better than anyone else. What I found most interesting was Forrester's demographic picture of (I'm assuming a US-centric) the reading device demographic:
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Forrester's profile of the current e-reader enthusiast is a 47-year-old married man with a college degree and an average household income of $116,000. About 30 percent of e-reader owners use them on business trips, while about 17 percent rely on e-readers during commutes. They read about 3.5 books each month, more than the average Internet user. About 83 percent consider themselves "technology optimists."
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This explains the disconnect between what the industry front-runners see as priorities and what so many individual device owners see as priorities.