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I don't think Amazon is the right retailer.
Scholastic is.
Given what schools spend on textbooks, a model that might work in the not to distant future would be subsidizing the cost of the readers through a school-wide textbook subscription program. Publishers would still charge roughly the same amount per book, but cutting printing out of the process and delivering them electronically to digital readers would be able to bring the cost of those readers to near zero after 3 to 5 years. Plus the school benefits from textbooks that are updated each year.
I look at the volume of books my 6th grade daughter lugs back and forth to school and feel guilty about the massive library I'm carrying in my coat pocket on my Iliad.
Something needs to be done here.
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