According to a recent report from the Seattle PI, Amazon has confirmed that they are in fact working on a version of their popular e-book reader, Kindle, for college and universities.The Amazon Kindle is an electronic book which can download publications from the Amazon over the Internet. The student edition Kindle will offer a larger screen, which I think makes sense when reading textbooks. It also sounds like a student version of the Kindle will be a welcomed device, according to McGraw-Hill Education they already publish 95% of their textbooks digitally, but as of current they are not as popular because a good reading device is not yet available. Reportedly textbooks are a 5.5 billion dollar market. With the Kindle, students won’t really be able to share their textbooks with other students, or sell them back at the end of the year. It’ll be interesting to see how the electronic versions are priced as opposed to the paper versions for that reason.
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