Survey Result: Most of you are not convinced about the Kindle Colorsoft

There are only five days left until the release of the new Kindle Colorsoft, the cult brand’s first color e-reader. If you want to buy it, it will retail for $279, but our indications suggest it won’t be off the shelf. We conducted a survey Android Authority Readers ask if they are likely to buy Colorsoft. The results can be found below.

To be fair to Amazon, which owns the Kindle brand, we’ll put our thumb on the scale before asking the question. Author and Kindle fan Dhruv Bhutani wrote a well-reasoned article about why he doesn’t want to buy Colorsoft yet, and at the end of his article we conducted the survey. He feels the device lacks useful new features, particularly note-taking and color-coded organization, available in competing e-readers like the Kobo Libra Color. The low-resolution color display (150 ppi) was another problem for him, and he also criticized the lack of physical page turn buttons, which he likes about the Kindle Oasis.

Our survey results indicate that you agreed with him.

Will you buy the Kindle Colorsoft?

The survey results are pretty decisive. Nearly 65% ​​of you said they wouldn’t buy the Kindle Colorsoft, suggesting Dhruv’s concerns were well-founded. Only 17% of readers said they would buy the device, while the remaining 18% of respondents said they have not yet decided.

This lukewarm reception could be an indication of why Amazon took so long to introduce a color version of the Kindle. The manufacturer probably conducted far more extensive consumer research than our survey, but it’s likely that if fan demand had been huge, we would have had a color version of the e-reader a long time ago.