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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
Onyx, Pocketbook, MobiScribe, Kobo, and possibly others are continuing to release new models with Kaleido 3 panels, so yes, it's a success. Companies don't continue making products unless people are buying them.
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Only Kobo of those has significant sales. We don't know what percentage profit is from Kaleido sales.
It depends on definition of success. Does it mean "making some profit", or making at least a third, or a majority, or being the dominant product.
Most people read ebooks on phones.
Amazon has over 92% of ebook sales in English.
Amazon Kindle by far the best selling ereader. Kobo maybe #2 a long way behind. The other ereader companies are both tiny and not part of larger companies apart from the Nook (Barnes & Nobel & Waterstones owned by big guys).
Amazon's colour solution is the Fire range. They will likely do a Kaleido eventually if it's not killed off by long battery life matt screen tablets.
Kobo has two Kaleido models. They are inferior for novels to mono-ink (and always will be poorer text, contrast, brightness, resolution) and novels is the main driver for eink. Comics is the only worth while colour content and that's niche. Other colour applications are even more niche due to the very poor Kaleido colour rendition.
Mono eink will outlast Kaleido. It's a fad.