{"id":5786,"date":"2010-06-01T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T14:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2010-06-01T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T14:38:30","slug":"2-million-ipads-sold-ebook-reader-sales-to-peak-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"2 Million iPads Sold. eBook Reader Sales to Peak in 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well we&#8217;ve got a couple of interesting bits of news (or is it rumor?). <strong>Apple<\/strong> announced the sale of its 2 millionth <strong>iPad<\/strong> since its launch <strong>April 3rd<\/strong>. Read the story<strong> <\/strong><a title=\"2 million iPads Sold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/mobile\/05\/31\/cnet.two.million.ipads\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at <strong>CNN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> dropped off a link to a story at <strong><a title=\"eBook Readers to Peak in 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilitysite.com\/2010\/05\/ebook-news-ebooks-will-have-peaked-by-2014\/\" target=\"_self\">MobilitySite<\/a><\/strong> that talks about the future sales trends for <strong>eBook Readers<\/strong>. Check that out <strong><a title=\"eBooks Sales to Peak in 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilitysite.com\/2010\/05\/ebook-news-ebooks-will-have-peaked-by-2014\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;m sure their exact\u00c2\u00a0figures are open to interpretation, but the trend sounds like a logical progression as the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> evolves.\u00c2\u00a0I think we&#8217;ve already talked about the eventual split in eBook Reader design and usage: one branch toward more expensive multi-function devices, and the other over to\u00c2\u00a0low-priced, read-only devices like <strong><a title=\"Kobo eReader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.koboereader.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Kobo eReader<\/a><\/strong>. Any way you look at it, eBooks are here to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we&#8217;ve got a couple of interesting bits of news (or is it rumor?). Apple announced the sale of its 2 millionth iPad since its launch April 3rd. Read the story here\u00c2\u00a0at CNN. And Jorgen dropped off a link to a story at MobilitySite that talks about the future sales trends for eBook Readers. Check &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5786\">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":[3,8,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786"}],"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=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}