More details on the program:
http://www.princeton.edu/ereaderpilot
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Q: Will students and faculty participating in the pilot get a free reader?
A: Yes. All participating students and faculty will get a device that they may keep.
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Q: In this time of severe economic constraints, why is Princeton spending money on this pilot?
A: The money to support this project ($30K) is coming from the High Meadows sustainability fund, a fund specifically endowed to support sustainability projects. None of the money is coming from Princeton’s operating budget, nor is any money being taken away from other projects or efforts to fund this pilot.
Last year, Princeton printed 50 million sheets of paper at the cost of $5 million. Over 10 million sheets were printed in student computing clusters, much of that generated by printing digitzed text. If, through the use of e-readers, we can cut down that printing by even 1%, we will have more than made up for what was spent on this pilot.
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