Barnes Noble to Launch Plastic Logic eBook Color eBook Comes in Spring 2010

If there is probably one thing that we don t need at this point in time,
that s another eBook reader. There are plenty such gadgets as it is,
with Amazon s Kindles being the most famous ones available. Barnes and
Nobles however feels lucky enough to launch a similar product and their
color eBook reader is expected to arrive in Spring 2010.

The device in question has been apparently leaked at the CTIA show.
According to a Barnes Noble representative, the future eBook will be
made by Plastic Logic and it will feature a color screen. The eBook
reader should be as big as a paperback and it would run a Barnes Noble
eBook reader application. Before we get to see the color version Plastic
Logic will also launch a grayscale eBook reader. In fact the rumored
6-inch Barnes Noble device should hit the stores sometime next month,
just in time for the holidays. Plastic Logic has also confirmed that the
color model is just �around the corner � so a Spring 2010 release
sounds plausible enough. Barnes Noble will be the first company to
launch a color eBook reader but will that be enough to impress us?

In an earlier post on TFTS I was telling you how, in the near future, it
will make more sense getting a tablet PC instead of an eBook reader.
Apple and Microsoft are each going to launch one early next year while
several other minions are working on their tablets too. The devices will
have enough resources to do plenty of things, one of them being acting
as an eBook reader with multitouch support. And it will all be available
in color. So if we happen to buy a tablet in a few months, would we
really be interested in a color eBook that can t offer us as many
features as a tablet would?

What Barnes and Noble should do is develop a great eBook reader
application, one that is capable to run properly on iPhones, BlackBerry
and Android smartphones and tablets of course. After all neither Apple
nor Microsoft have all that content to offer to future tablet owners
when it comes to eBooks, although that might change in the near future.
With all that in mind it will be interesting to see if Amazon and Sony
decide to pursue similar dreams involving color eBook readers.