{"id":5418,"date":"2010-04-16T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:58:11","slug":"huge-jump-in-e-ink-display-unit-sales-the-ebook-revolution-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5418","title":{"rendered":"Huge Jump in E Ink Display Unit Sales &#8211; the eBook Revolution Explodes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to our friend <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for digging up this link to an interesting post at <strong><a title=\"E Ink Display Sales Explode!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsmt.net\/smt\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=10121:e-book-popularity-drives-electronic-paper-display-epd-shipments-to-417-yy-growth&amp;catid=34:world&amp;Itemid=78\" target=\"_self\">Global SMT &amp; Packaging<\/a><\/strong> about the explosive state of sales in the E Ink display market where they&#8217;re reporting a <strong>417%<\/strong> increase in\u00c2\u00a0sales from<strong> 950 thousand<\/strong> units in <strong>2008<\/strong> to a whopping <strong>5 million<\/strong> electronic display shipments in <strong>2009<\/strong>. With the ongoing\u00c2\u00a0shift to digital publishing, this trend is expected to continue into <strong>2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This sudden explosion in sales\u00c2\u00a0was first driven by the Amazon Kindle&#8217;s popularity, but has since branched out to cover devices from several competing technology companies. Check out the article <strong><a title=\"E In Display Sales Explode!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsmt.net\/smt\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=10121:e-book-popularity-drives-electronic-paper-display-epd-shipments-to-417-yy-growth&amp;catid=34:world&amp;Itemid=78\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s a fantastic read that is very exciting news for the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. (Great find <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a>! Have you been over to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen&#8217;s World<\/a>,<\/strong> yet? Beautiful photography!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to our friend Jorgen for digging up this link to an interesting post at Global SMT &amp; Packaging about the explosive state of sales in the E Ink display market where they&#8217;re reporting a 417% increase in\u00c2\u00a0sales from 950 thousand units in 2008 to a whopping 5 million electronic display shipments in 2009. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5418\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}