>> I'm not even a professional and I spent more than that on a camera or
>> two.
>
> You're obviously drastically richer than almost everybody I've ever met
> in my life then. :-P

What, you don't know anyone who has spent $1000 on a hobby?  I find that 
extremely hard to believe.

> I think you'd have to be doing some pretty high-end print work for this
> level of precision to actually matter. Time Magazine probably does it,
> but I doubt my local newspaper does.

If your local paper has any colour pages then surely they will, the 
advertisers will demand it to ensure their company colours are correct.

 > Given that, it seems that there's
> only going to be 10, maybe 20 customers on the face of the Earth who'd
> want to buy this product. WTF?

Did you ever actually look in a newsagent, there are hundreds of 
full-colour magazines just displayed to the public in a shop, there are 
orders of magnitudes more that are not sold in shops.  They all will use 
colour calibrated displays to ensure they print exactly what they think 
they are printing.

You really do seem to have a problem with estimating things like this, 
you just need to think for a bit before guessing.

>> Altho I must admit I never figured out how you could calibrate an
>> emissive display with subtractive ink set.
>
> Well, hypothetically you can match them. But sure, I have to wonder how
> close the match would actually look...

You calibrate subtractive ink sets (and every other reflective product) 
under specifically calibrated light, designed to match the expected 
viewing conditions.  Shops use very specific lighting with an exactly 
specified emission spectrum, products are designed and checked according 
to the lighting in the shop.  That's why often when you pick up an item 
of clothing it looks a slightly different colour outside compared to in 
the shop.

>> I wonder how long before this sort of thing is available in color eInk?
>
> I wonder how long before colour eInk exists.

I wonder how long it would take to google "color eink"?

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