@Jason Perlow:
One more time, you have been proven wrong:
May 26, 2011: "Apple's iPad: an underachiever in the book market"
[Publishers and agents] estimate that Apple sales are around 10 percent of the e-market, far behind the believed 60 percent to 65 percent for Amazon.
A strong No. 2 to Amazon has emerged, but it's Barnes & Noble, which launched the Nook late in 2009 to skepticism about everything ... [Barnes & Noble] promoted the Nook relentlessly through its superstores and now has around 25 percent of e-sales, publishers say.
The original Nook was released on October 2009, while the iPad 1 in April 2010. So, after more than 1 year, the iPad has been unable to catch up. It has just half of the Nook ebook marketshare despite the difference in release dates between both devices was just 6 months.
So, who will survive the eReader apocalypse? Well, perhaps the iPad won't.
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