Colored e-Ink technology has been out there since at least 2005, so hopefully cost effectiveness is coming. If Amazon can get it on a 4th or 5th generation Kindle, it would be amazing!

http://www.inkinmotion.com/press/releases/pr86.ht…

I think the big thing for Amazon is going to be to improve their catalog depth in a wide variety of categories. When eReader (Peanut Press) became part of the Fictionwise family, they broadened their range of titles significantly. Amazon has a huge base to work from, but I also have to wonder how the Barnes and Noble acquisition of Fictionwise will affect their catalog.

If nothing else, Amazons push into this arena should help bring the prices of titles down. eReader/Fictionwise and others have had horrible pricing over the past few years, but that may have more to do with pricing from the publishing house rather than the e-tailers themselves. Hopefully Amazon has the clout to push back on this and keep the prices lower. They seem to be doing that somewhat so far.

SO the big question – does all this mean the eBooks might be starting to come into their own?

And the Kindle will have a color screen when it won't cost $900 for a color e-ink screen. The technology isn't quite there yet in terms of being cost-effective.

Note to self: back up eReader library and make sure that I have readers for every platform downloaded…just in case.