Bezos: Color Kindle "multiple years" away
But despite recent advances and even a color eBook on the market, Bezos says that color e-ink displays are “not ready for prime time,” and he doesn’t expect a color Amazon device for years.
That’s too bad, because with Amazon’s connections with universities, the Kindle could be a real replacement for those wallet-killing full-color textbooks. English majors had it easy, but studying Neuroscience at UCLA as I did meant buying probably a thousand dollars worth of books and miscellany. I would have loved to have a color Kindle DX, and would have gladly paid good American dollars (they were good back then) for versions of pretty much any of my books.
Not to mention that a color device really opens up the platform to killing glossy magazines and other colorful what-have-yous. Most of what I read is black and white, but Amazon is going to need to tap the Glamour and Enquirer market if they want to get one of these things in every home.