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Originally Posted by Amalthia
when blogs was mentioned I had this nightmarish vision of badly formatted and purple text on grey backgrounds coming to us soon via our ebook devices. one advantage of being stuck with white background and black text is that everything is rather readable without the users messing it up. Basically, this feels like just one more area where people will eventually be able to express their creativity and hurt people's brains in the process.
Though, it would be neat to read graphic novels (with all the colors) on my device.
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Well, there are good blogs and bad blogs. For instance, I really like Gizmodo which is where we got the article that started this thread. It really benefits from color photos. There are also plenty of great magazines that need color. I wouldn't be nearly as interested in National Geographic without color, or fashion magazines for that matter.
Besides, there are a lot more folks out there reading Perez Hilton, watching cats flush toilets on You Tube and looking at pr0n every day than there are buying novels. Mass appeal will make devices cheaper and spur innovation. I work in the broadband field. When people ask me what I do, I have been known to refer to myself as a Pornography Expediter. I know many folks don't like it but just like video games drive a lot of computer hardware innovation, getting people their smut faster drives a lot of networking innovation.