e-Readers have experienced diminished market share due to the rise of lower priced tablets. One of the big draws of electronic book readers is that you can read for months at a time, and its easier on the eyes then your average LCD tablet. This year it is expected that over 4.5 million readers are going to be shipped out in Q4, with Amazon being the largest vendor. The … [Read more...] about 4.5 Million e-Readers to Be Shipped During the Holidays
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E-Readers, PCs Facing the Heat from Tablet PCs
Amazon had lit the Kindle Fire with the hopes of blazing into the booming tablet market. While it has been largely successful (the second largest selling tablet after the iPad and the best selling Android tablet so far), an unlikely victim of the raging Amazon Fire has been its very own stable mate, the Kindle Touch. In fact, Amazon is already reported to have scaled down on it … [Read more...] about E-Readers, PCs Facing the Heat from Tablet PCs
Two Million e-Readers to Be Sold in Q1 2012
The worldwide shipment of e-ink based e-readers is going to slip to only two million units in the first quarter of 2012. This is a far cry from Q4 of 2011 with over nine million units sold. The decline is mainly attributed to the success of tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. Amazon is seeing declining sales on its entire line of e-ink based readers and have … [Read more...] about Two Million e-Readers to Be Sold in Q1 2012
What Brand e-Reader do you have? Top 10 Poll Results
We ran a poll in December 2010 and January 2011 on what brand of e-reader proved to be the most popular with the regular visitors of Good e-Reader. This poll was run during the crucial holiday season and the month afterwords. We did not ask what e-reader in particular people had, but only what brand they decided to go with. We had 647 votes total cast in two months and the … [Read more...] about What Brand e-Reader do you have? Top 10 Poll Results
E-Reader – The Gift that Keeps on Giving
In the past year the sale of e-readers has skyrocketed making it one of the top consumer gadgets to own at this time. Many of the sales that helped to give these devices international attention came during the holiday season. The Publishers Association has collected some valuable data on the subject and how e-reader and e-reader related purchases compare to other popular … [Read more...] about E-Reader – The Gift that Keeps on Giving
e-Reader sales will jump to $8.2 Billion by 2014
According to a recent report from the Yankee Group e-Readers are set to dramatically soar from 11 million units sold in 2010, making around $1.9 billion industry wide to 72 million units sold and a market growth of $8.2 billion by 2014. The recent report estimates that the market will almost double every year until 2014 with popular electronic readers such as the Amazon … [Read more...] about e-Reader sales will jump to $8.2 Billion by 2014
E-reader market predicted to triple by 2014
The market analysis firm In-Stat made a healthy prediction for the e-reader market today: the company believes that by 2014 sales of e-readers will just about triple. The company states that about 12 million e-readers will have been sold this year, and by the end of 2014, sales will have grown to a healthy 300%. While e-reader sales have grown strong over the last few years, … [Read more...] about E-reader market predicted to triple by 2014
E-Readers start to fade due to the rise of the Tablet PC
The Electronic Reader market seemed to be bustling for the last 6 months, with the crescendo happening at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas earlier in the year. With the success of the Apple iPad, and other more affordable Slate PC's, such as the Archos 7 which displays full color, we have seen more consumers gravitating towards the multi-media driven devices, rather … [Read more...] about E-Readers start to fade due to the rise of the Tablet PC
April E-Book sales up 127% Quarterly Projections look Good
A new report came in today from the Association of American Publishers that in the month of April E-Books saw a spike of 127.9% increase from this time last year. The Total profit saw in the month of April totalled to around 27.4 Million Dollars. Now to be fair, only 13 publishers supply data to the AAP, so total E-Book sales are likely 35 million dollars. Although in … [Read more...] about April E-Book sales up 127% Quarterly Projections look Good