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Originally Posted by pwjone1
If what you read is mostly fiction, then color is not the big deal thing, but if you read anything else, magazines, newspapers, text books, picture-books, blogs, etc., it's a big deal. It might even be the case that color eReaders would be an even nicer differentiator from printed media, in that color printing costs are such that it drives the cost of printed books up, whereas if you have a color eReader, it's a nominal incremental cost. Consumers want color, you can hardly find a black'n'white magazine these days, and all the newspaper publishers are switching or have switched to color (even NYT) for ads, and added punch. And once color eReaders (or tablets) are ubiquitous, even fiction will use a lot more color, not just for emphasis, but maybe border themes, pictures for chapter headers, etc.
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Amusingly, a lot of the ebook defenders seem to feel that fiction novels and other applications that slow monochrome EPDs are adequate for are "serious" reading, and the forms of reading that fast color screens can do are somehow less "serious". "Serious" tends to be chosen as it allows the user to be arrogant without outright calling themselves better.