I think about color in reference to the magazine subscriptions I presently have... Although I only have 3 subscriptions currently, that's 30 magazines a year, a lot of material, and I generally like to keep my magazines.
Presently I have a collection of
Popular Science that dates back to about 1973, every issue... that's a few boxes of magazines right there! I also have back issues of
Scientific American, a much thicker publication, which I've had to start throwing away after I accumulate more than 2 years. I have boxes and shelves of other old and new magazines too, most of which I'd love to keep, but often find myself throwing away once they become too numerous.
I can't tell you how much I'd love to have all of them stored electronically in one reading device... better yet, on a storage disk(s) that I could move from device to device. The potential for such a mobile personal library is incredible... and even more for people who do not have the room to store even a small number of books or magazines (or textbooks). Such a tool could revolutionalize individual access to knowledge and information beyond what we can even fathom today.
Maybe people don't do as much literature reading as they used to... but the popular magazine industry is very healthy. Give those consumers an easier way to access their favorite magazines in full color--and those consumers include adults down to "teeny-boppers"--and you've got a market to be reckoned with. E-reading devices may never become the "iPod of books," but they could easily become the "iPod of magazines."
But I think I've mentioned this before...
