Comments on: Bezos On Kindle: ‘We Would Love To Have Color’ — And Every Book Ever

By: Henze

Henze — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:18:09 +0000

that's because Amazon sells books. E-Ink corp makes the film that provides the color (or grayscale, in this case). Its not so easy to make color in a reflective display that has enough color gamut and brightness to be compelling. I'm sure folks are working on it though!

By: Ariosjr

Ariosjr — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:07:04 +0000

The color issue, or lack thereof, is what breaks this deal for me. Amazon boasts 16 shades of gray? It seems counter-progressive to me and I think that Jeff Bezos should focus on advancing e-ink color technology, rather than digitizing every book on the planet.

What are we back in the fifties? Come on Amazon, get your priorities straight and stop trying to "one-up" Google at every turn. Your bad form is starting to show and consumers are paying for it.

Design one with full color e-ink or some other technology and I'll be the first in line to buy one. Either that, or lower the price.

By: Rogue

Rogue — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:41:02 +0000

I want to know if later versions will have a pdf viewer (I've got plenty of ebooks)… Dynamically zoom in / out of magazines and newspapers ( Ctrl + / – ): view the whole page then zoom into a specific article. Perhaps a larger folding screen would be nice…

And multimedia-rich publications such as comics and text-books…

From what I've read, e-ink does do colour – not viable just yet though.

…Then I'll buy one

By: MEl

MEl — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:18:39 +0000

I would truly like to puchase an e-book, but I know new styles, improved unit's,
multi colored covers, steel frams, and attached reading lights will be intoduced soon. How long will we wait to see a new generation of e-books?