Almost 30 million e-ink screens are forecast to be shipped in 2011, capitalizing on the recent success of the Kobo Touch, Barnes and Noble Simple Touch, and many more! Digitimes is reporting that Scott Liu, the company CEO, gave these staggering numbers very recently at the company’s 2011 shareholders meeting on June 24. He also mentioned that the company’s capacity to manufacture screens in such quantity are up by almost three times the amount they were capable of in 2011.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.