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1. The Tablet Market is 100 Million Units Smaller Than Expected. What Happened? (Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code)
2. Should Independent Booksellers Go Omni-Channel? (Judith Rosen / Publishers Weekly)
3. The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley is For Poets (Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post)
4. Another Way to Monetize E-Books (Joe Wikert)
5. Erotic E-Books: I’ll Read What She’s Reading (Roz Warren / Huffington Post)
6. Book in a Box: A Different Way to Diversify Books (Kristine Hoang / Digital Book World)
7. Amazon’s New Kindle Oasis Has Leaked: Cool Battery Case, But Not Waterproof (Chris Welch / The Verge)
“The Tablet Market is 100 Million Units Smaller Than Expected. What Happened? ”
What happened was that some idiot put too much weight into a five year old wild guess. Seriously, that number has no relevance, and should never have been cited.