eBook Sales to Smartphones, Tablets & eReaders to Reach $9.7bn by 2016, as Storefront Tablet Apps Fuel Usage

eBook Sales to Smartphones, Tablets & eReaders to Reach $9.7bn by 2016, as Storefront Tablet Apps Fuel Usage

HAMPSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwire) — 12/01/11 — A new from Juniper Research has found that continued strong growth in the dedicated eReader market, allied to an upsurge in usage across tablet devices, will push annual revenues from eBooks delivered to portable devices to $9.7 billion by 2016, up from $3.2 billion this year.The report — Mobile Publishing: eBooks, eMagazines & eNewspapers for Smart Devices — found that the increasing demand for tablets means that these devices wi