Thread: Barnes and Noble confirms COLOR e-book reader for Spring 2010 [INCORRECT]
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:29 AM   #90
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
The really revolutionary thing about the Kindle is the free Whispernet. It takes more information to convey color than black and white -- therefore, more bandwidth would be used. Therefore, it would cost Amazon more.
Not really. Adding color is just the matter of a few extra styles in the CSS and the markup. Also, I don't think color pics are that much bigger than gray scale. And, many of the pics might already be color the Kindle just doesn't display the color, it dithers it into gray scale.

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