Electronic Reading Devices in my Bag

I GET DIRECT e-mail about mobile phones and electronic reading devices, more than any other kind of gadgets. A lot of the mail concerns the rise of Kindle but Kindle's rise is not ignored by Sony and Barnes & Noble. As regular readers know, I pay Sony an average of EUR 80 a month in new devices and consumeable items. Over on Amazon, the Kindle has been a pivotal growth driver. You can get more than 200,000 English-language books on it, along with nearly 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Irish Times. I won't buy a Kindle, although it starts shipping to Ireland on October 19th. I expect to have a 3G eReader and a touchscreen convetible next year. I'm waiting for holiday pricing. Forrester Research estimated that three million e-reader devices would be sold in the United States in 2009, up from an earlier estimate of two million.

That could double in 2010, bringing cumulative sales to 10 million by the end of 2010.Amazon said that for every 100 customers who buy a book, some 48 buy it as an e-book-- up from 35 five months ago. The research group predicts that Amazon will take 60 per cent market share in 2009, followed by Sony at 35 per cent. In July, Credit Suisse estimated that revenues and gross profit from the Kindle could reach $420 million and $35 million, respectively, in 2009, representing some 8.4 per cent of Amazon's total revenue.

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Sent mail2blog after reading another direct email on my Nokia E90.

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