Samsung CEO says Tablet PCs will Replace Digital Book Market

According to this article on TradingMarkets.com, "Samsung, the world's largest technology company by sales, believes that the emerging tablet PC will eventually drive electronic book (ebook) readers from the market and become a dominant platform for reading."

CEO Choi Gee-sung suggests "the current ebook readers, which support only black and white and are designed solely for consuming digital books, are doomed to lose a battle with multifunctional and Web-connected tablet PC devices, which enable ebook reading as well as hundreds of other functions."

"The remarks were made a day after the company unveiled the Galaxy Tab on the eve of the 2010 IFA show, Europe's largest consumer electronics trade fair held Sept. 3-8. The new tablet is seen as a challenge to Apple Inc.'s mega-hit iPad."

News reports say Samsung is throwing down the gauntlet to Apple, while Sony is taking on Amazon.com.

Read the full article.

What do you think? Will ereaders give way to tablet PCs?

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