How a Student-Friendly Kindle Could Change the Textbook Market

Chronicle of Higher Education by Jeffrey R. Young | May. 6, 2009 (News Report)

Rumors that Amazon will introduce a wide-format Kindle have the news media and bloggers speculating about whether the new gadget will spark an electronic-textbook revolution and lighten backpacks nationwide. Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - May. 6, 2009

What the textbook industry needs is the equivalent of an iTunes store for e-books, say some experts, who note that sales of digital music never took off until Apple created the iPod and an easy-to-use online music marketplace. That’s why Amazon seems like a promising entrant.

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