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Originally Posted by stonetools
So, are you now rooting for a KoboColor?  |
Well, apparently Michael Serbinis, the Kobo CEO is thinking about one. See the
Forbes article from July 12.
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Kobo isn’t averse to adopting other ideas from its rivals, such as color screens. “The next big thing will be color,” said Serbinis. Publishers, he pointed out, are beginning to make more color content like cookbooks and children’s books available in digital form. (There have been technical upgrades, too. EPUB, the e-book standard that Kobo uses, now supports the kind of fixed layouts found in many cookbooks and reference books.)
When the number of available color books reaches the tens of thousands, companies like Kobo will want to offer a color-enabled e-reader, Serbinis hinted. It’s an idea Barnes & Noble implemented first with its Nook Color, which was introduced in October 2010.
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I am hoping that Kobo does eInk or some other non-backlit technology when they go for it, but who knows.