New Kindle E-Reader Enters Textbook Market
Tech geeks are buzzing about Amazon's new Kindle DX, a wide-format electronic book reader that will launch this summer. But colleges and universities also have a newfound stake in its future, as Amazon works to bring content from publishers who control around 60 percent of the textbook market to the E-reader, Inside Higher Ed reports.
According to Amazon officials, the new Kindle will offer textbooks from three major publishers, Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley, this summer. E-textbooks are not necessarily new, but these partnerships might be game-changing in the latent E-textbook market.
Amazon will run pilot programs at six institutions—Arizona State, Case Western Reserve, Pace University, Princeton, Reed College, and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. School officials hope the Kindle, which will cost $489, might eventually defray textbook costs and also reduce the amount of paper (in textbooks or printed course packs) used per student.
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Kindle for public K-12
As a former board of education trustee I see this as the future for all school books. We have issues with children carrying book bags which are too heavy. This will enable all school books to be updated yearly and reduce costs. There needs to be a push for health reasons to transfer K-12 educational books to this new media. 1 Kindle can take the place of all school books. These Kindles can be made stronger like Panasonic Toughbooks which are impervious to most types of liquid spills and being dropped.
Colleges can save their students money by allowing them to download the books rather than having to purchase or rent the college books.
I also see the end of having a student say I left my books at school. The downloads can be done to the home PC as well as to the Kindle. Kindles are the future for books. If we really want to push for this the Dept of Education should be fighting to get their share of the TARP money to offset the $489.00 cost of the Kindle.
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why cant kindle be sold out with inbuilt school books in the memory, according to the grades? so that students also can avial this facility and reduce their burdens by keeping their bundle of text books at their home..........
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