Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar

Posted: 1/23/2012  |  By: Julie Bosman | New York Times

There was no must-have toy of Christmas 2011 — for youngsters, anyway.

For adults, tablet computers and e-readers were the gifts of choice, judging by a new report that indicates the number of adults in the United States who own tablets and e-readers nearly doubled from mid-December to early January.