Comments on: Profile of E-Ink by Boston Globe http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/profile-of-e-ink-by-boston-globe/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Story http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/profile-of-e-ink-by-boston-globe/comment-page-1/#comment-1148431 Paul Story Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:13:11 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31474#comment-1148431 "...In 2009, more than 5 million e-book readers are expected to be sold worldwide, more than quintuple last year’s sales, according to research firm iSuppli..." Wow! Some prediction. No idea of the efficacy of the survey but I'm surprised no-one has commented on it. Perhaps it is common knowledge and I missed the post, but I thought that 3 million was the upper prediction to date. I have wondered recently about numbers. There seems to be too many serious players coming to the table for us not to think that they know something we don't. If it is indeed a quintuple increase from last year, then that might account for some of the excitement and panic. Imagine what that base and all these players and money in the pool might do to the market in 2010. "...He says this is an engineering sample from a customer that will soon ship an e-newspaper built around it. “We are just weeks away from flexible displays,”..." "...Before the end of the year, another company -- that E-Ink won’t yet name -- should release an e-reader for textbooks, which will include illustrations, tables, and other graphics that are difficult to display on today’s e-readers..." Surprised and wondering. “…In 2009, more than 5 million e-book readers are expected to be sold worldwide, more than quintuple last year’s sales, according to research firm iSuppli…”

Wow! Some prediction. No idea of the efficacy of the survey but I’m surprised no-one has commented on it. Perhaps it is common knowledge and I missed the post, but I thought that 3 million was the upper prediction to date.

I have wondered recently about numbers. There seems to be too many serious players coming to the table for us not to think that they know something we don’t. If it is indeed a quintuple increase from last year, then that might account for some of the excitement and panic. Imagine what that base and all these players and money in the pool might do to the market in 2010.

“…He says this is an engineering sample from a customer that will soon ship an e-newspaper built around it. “We are just weeks away from flexible displays,”…”

“…Before the end of the year, another company — that E-Ink won’t yet name — should release an e-reader for textbooks, which will include illustrations, tables, and other graphics that are difficult to display on today’s e-readers…”

Surprised and wondering.

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