On Sunday, The New York Times reported on a Chinese company that is said to have created the first color e-ink display. Though Amazon and other e-ink e-reader sellers have long touted e-ink as being easier on the eyes and more like reading off a physical page, they've taken a lot of knocks for providing a solely black-and-white experience.

There has been a lot of scrambling behind the scenes to find a way to get color onto the e-ink format—a sizable chunk of the comics e-book market is waiting for whichever bookseller gets a color e-ink screen together first, not to mention kids' books, magazines and textbooks—and it looks like Hanvon is going to win the race. But just today, LG unveiled a new color e-paper and partial color e-paper display. Unless Amazon decides to go with a tablet computer with an LCD screen, you're still a long way from a full-color Kindle, but these devices are about to start appearing on the horizon.

In other e-book news, the Kno, an enormous dual-screen tablet computer (each screen is 14 inches!) that is intended mainly for textbooks and student-oriented activities will finally be on sale in December or January. The dual-screen model will be $899, and the single-screen will be $599.