E-readers - Upsetting the Apple cart

• Published 07 Oct 2010

The entrance of Apple's new iPad throws a fast-developing domestic e-reader market into turmoil.

China's e-book reader market has developed at breakneck speed in the last several months, but the storming success of Apple's iPad and its iBook e-reader application means that for some, the story is almost over before it even begun.

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