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align="left" height="102" width="144">After
Christmas every year, public libraries commonly
have a lot of patrons bring their new gadgets to
the library to ask for help in connecting to the
Internet, loading ebooks, or doing any number of
other things, thinking that the librarians will
know more about the new devices than they do. More
and more often, that device is a tablet computer,
and if early holiday sales are any indication,
that will be especially true this year, as tablets
are grabbing a huge portion of the market. Those
sales numbers are important for libraries to
notice, because they tell us what types of devices
people will be using to access online library
services. So how well does your library website
work on a tablet computer?
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://stateschronicle.com/samsung-tablet-sales-goes-past-10-million-first-time-q3-2013-6045.html">Samsung
tablet sales goes past 10 million for the
first time in Q3, 2013</a> (States
Chronicle/Jason Setrakian) "Cumulative tablet
sales figures for Samsung up to the third
quarter have been reported to be 28 million
units. In 2012, the total sales of tablet PC by
Samsung had been 16.6 million units. Analysts
believe the company can end up selling twice the
number of tablet devices it has sold last year
if it is able to maintain the sales rate it has
achieved till the third quarter."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://bgr.com/2013/11/29/walmart-black-friday-tablet-sales/">Walmart
reports hot Black Friday tablet sales led by
iPad mini</a> (BGR/Chris Smith) "Walmart's top
sellers include big screen TVs and laptops, with
the retailer singling out certain hot products
such as the iPad mini, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
and the Call of Duty: Ghosts game. Online,
hand-held video games and SLR digital cameras
were among the most popular items.
Interestingly, Walmart said it sold over 1.4
million tablets during its Black Friday sale led
by the iPad mini."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/26/half-of-all-pcs-shipped-in-2014-will-be-tablets-cost-friendly-androids-65-of-them-apple-30-and-most-profitable/">Canalys:
Half of all PCs shipped in 2014 will be
tablets; Android 65%, Apple 30%</a>
(TechCrunch/Ingrid Lunden) "Leading the charge
will be tablets built on Android - which
collectively will account for 65% of all tablets
shipped (185 million units) with Samsung at the
helm. Apple, with its growing line of iPad
devices, will remain the single-biggest tablet
brand, taking 30% of the market - and,
significantly, the most profitable."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-looking-to-eclipse-apple-and-ship-100-million-tablets-in-2014/">Samsung
looking to eclipse Apple and ship 100 million
tablets in 2014</a> (GSMArena/Ian) "...in Q3
2013...Samsung was able to ship almost 10
million units, an increase of 123% over the same
period in 2012. For the same time period, Apple
was able to increase its year-over-year growth
by only 0.6%, and saw its market share fall from
just over 40% in 3Q12 to 29.6% in 3Q13.
According to <em>ETNews</em> out of Korea,
Samsung is in talks with several Korean panel
makers to ensure it will have enough supply as
it anticipates to eclipse its 2013 figures by
more than two-fold."</li>
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fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Tech
market consulting company Canalys <a
href="http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/tablets-make-50-pc-market-2014">predicts</a>
that the Microsoft Surface tablet will double its
market share from 2012 to 2014, but still have
only 5% of all tablet sales.
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