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Originally Posted by ekaser
I'm with you on all of that except color. True, color isn't necessary for reading straight novels, but the world is a wider place than just novels. It would be nice to see the covers of novels in color. It's a must to have colors for comics, children's books, magazines, web pages, etc. And the line between 'readers' and 'computers' will continue to blur.
When I worked at HP in the early '80s (we were making a pre-IBM PC desktop engineering computer), we were just starting to talk about color displays, and all of the younger engineers were thrilled about the idea, but a 50-ish marketing manager said, "You don't need color on a computer display, black & white is good enough for anything you need to do!" Back then, it was understandable that someone with not much "forward vision" would think something like that. Today we should know better.  |
To be totally honest, I view an
ebook reader and an
emagazine reader as being two different things. Ebook readers would tend to be smaller in size, generally monochromatic and more portable, while emagazine readers would be larger, have color, possibly have web access (gotta be able to click those ads that fund that magazine you're reading), etc. Now, that said, I can certainly see the two converging for most people's needs, and I think they will. But as that happens, I think there will still be a (very small) niche market for dedicated
book-reading devices.