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Archive for May 7th, 2009

Kindle Textbooks?

Posted by Dennis Shiraev on May 7, 2009

Amazon is definitely trying to pitch this idea to universities around the country. At the moment, though, I think the $489 PDF-enabled Kindle is too expensive to be marketed as a reasonable alternative to traditional course packets and textbooks. When the price goes down and most textbooks become available in this electronic format, we’ll probably see more Kindle users around campus. But I predict this is at the very least five years away.

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