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Originally Posted by Jadon
Why? Yes, color is nice to have in photos or diagrams, but lots of content needs neither. A story on who won an election, or what disaster happened where, will often have a photo, but it's usually not one core to the story, it's just something put in to catch the eye.
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Unless things like fashion magazines and other such trivia comes over, everything will be much delayed - they need colour. In general I agree with you, but in terms of hastening the transition from paper, colour becomes much more essential.
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Originally Posted by Jadon
Which is less an issue when you have a small screen, and are not trying to draw attention to a particular part of a huge newsheet. Print newspapers have large sheets, but that's just how they're historically done. There's nothing about presenting news that truly requires huge display spaces. Just because print does something doesn't mean that it's right, or that epaper must do it the exact same way.
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There is a reason why newspaper's traditionally have competing stories with a few paragraphs, originally it was just to cram as much into the sheets, but layout is part of their function - A3 suits them best, A4 is a make-do, but a vertical list (like RSS) defeats the purpose of eye-glance browsing. That is why existing electronic newspapers keep their layout even if the stories have to be read on a "new" electronic page.
Likewise magazines, especially women's magazines, where pictures and layout direct attention to products - which seems their major reason for existence.
Some scientific publishing requires good colour images, and where would National Geographic be without its layout and photos. Then of course there are the art magazines where good colour is essential.
There are any number of ways that ebooks may succeed, as surely they will in the end (paper publishing is always expensive). One way is to capture the newspaper and glossy magazine market.