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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Wouldn't there be issues with colour settings on the PC?
With an art pbook, you get it as the producers intended - two PCs would be unlikely to display the images the same way.
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Though almost nobody bothers, the calibration and color representation accuracy of monitors is quite a well studied concern. You can go out and buy a calibration tool and make sure your monitor is doing its best to display colors correctly. Now, publishers do the same thing for their printing process and there are color gamuts that are known and named and so there is a standard target. Usually for digital works the standard target is Adobe sRGB. And while it's true most consumer monitors display around 75% of that, it's not noticeably by most people, and those who DO care will have much better monitors.
So yes, it's a concern, but it's not one without a solution. Movies in home theatres suffer the exact same problem, if not worse with black levels being a bigger concern. The enthusiasts deal with those problems in that realm, the art enthusiasts can deal with the same problem, with less hassle, in the computing realm.
And furthermore, if dedicated reader technology continues to improve, you can be sure that, once possible, color accuracy will be a major point made to impress publishers and readers alike.