One in five Americans will use a tablet by the end of this year

The new forecast projects that the triple-digit growth seen in 2011 will carry through 2012, fueled primarily by the popularity of Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, as well as by an expanding selection of low-priced tablets. eMarketer projects more than 20% of US consumers—nearly 70 million Americans—will use a tablet by year’s end, and in three years’ time half of all internet users will be armed with them.

via www.emarketer.com