It is the same reason why there were no new 13.3 inch e-readers in 2015, although Onyx and Pocketbook both teased they had one in development, but they are nowhere to be found. Pew found that 45% of U.S. adults own a tablet – a substantial increase since they began measuring tablet ownership in 2010. There are only a few e-reader companies left standingWhen Good e-Reader first started reporting on the rise of e-readers and e-books in 2008, the world was great. In June 2015 Freescale announced the IMX 7 dual core processor, which will be incorporated into most new e-readers in 2016. Michael Kozlowski Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks, e-books and e-readers for the past eighteen years.