E-Book Manufacturers Slowly Making the Move to Color
The race for color e-book readers is on, but U.S. consumers hoping to get their hands a technicolor tech-tome may still have to wait. Fujitsu only offers its color Flepia e-book in Japan and, according to Wired, everyone else is (at least) six months away. Color display prototypes have been hindered by a grab-bag of technical problems, like slow refresh rates, inadequate screen size, poor clarity, and problems with brightness, to name a few. Wired quoted Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who said that the Kindle, Amazon's popular e-reader, is "multiple years away" from a color screen.
Asad Hussain, vice president of Kent Displays, which developed Flepia's display, told Wired that he sees the slow move to color screens as a product of manufacturers not wanting to upset the status quo. Hussain claims that the momentum of black-and-white displays are keeping companies from making the shift to color. Of course, there is one company rumored to be working on an e-reader that doesn't abide to market trends. Surprise! It's Apple.
Fueled by reports of the company ordering 10-inch touch screens and huge microchips, some insiders believe that Apple may be working on a color e-reader. Apple has been hiring microchip designers, and we think an Apple reader would be a perfect fit for the company's new deal with Marvel in offering "In-Motion" comics.
While some may believe paper books will never lose their appeal, lack of paper waste, wide variety of uses that come with a networked device, and now the promise of full-color, high-resolution displays (complete with bonus features like author interviews) could soon make electronic readers enticing to even the staunchest book nerds. [From: Wired.com]





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Subscribe to commentsjtmonrowJul 8th 2009 2:12PM
Stand downstream from a paper mill -- if you can stand it -- or lift your middle schooler's backpack. -- if you can........ Ebooks are the future and the future and the sooner the better. They will be thin like the Kindle or the Sony Reader, have wireless net access [like the Kindle] will have color and sound [like the Kindle] Right now, I like the Kindle.