Wednesday, March 31

More Will Buy iPad Than Kindle In Next Year

A new survey predicts demand for the iPad as an e-book reader will outpace Amazon's category-leading Kindle over the next year. The study by comparison-shopping site PriceGrabber found an obvious advantage of the iPad is that it's more than a single-use device like the Kindle. Only 13% of 1,631 people interviewed by PriceGrabber in February said they would use the iPad primarily as an e-reader. Twenty percent would use it mainly as another "mobile productivity device," 19% as a replacement for a laptop or a netbook, and 10% as an entertainment device.

Read more at Media Post.