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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
RThey are continuing to work on a new device. the picture was part of a presentation given at SID in June. you can see the powerpoint on their website.
of course good color is still a ways off yet but that video shows a b+w production ready display .
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Good color is mostly irrelevant to ebooks. (Kindle's doing fine with B&W only sales.) Good ebook support and 8 colors would be plenty to allow the few charts and such that just don't work for B&W.
The question is: can you buy one yet? When will people be able to buy one, and how much will it cost?
It doesn't matter if prototype technology exists; multiformat devices won't squeeze out single-focus devices based on how good the prototypes are. I understand the Readius wasn't so much "cancelled" as "shelved indefinitely, and parts of that tech incorporated into other projects," but that doesn't matter. The problem isn't that "such a screen can't be made;" it's that so far, nobody's made it commercially viable.