Global Ebook Reader Sales May Be Up By 79.3%: Gartner Estimates 6.6 Million Sales in 2010

Buzzle: "People might romanticize about the love of reading books in hard cover and paperback, but the rising trend in ebook reader sales tells another story. The leading information technology analyst firm, Gartner has predicted that the global sale of electronic ebook readers will reach up to 6.6 million units by the end of 2010. This will be a stupendous 79.3% rise from the earlier sales figures of 2009, which saw a sale of 3.6 million units worldwide."