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Originally Posted by Ken Irving
Hate to be a wet blanket, but they should have gotten a way, way better price than a $23/unit discount for such a large purchase, especially considering the fact that their textbook purchases are now a captive of Amazon. They not only paid too much for the reading devices, but now can't shop around for the best price on books. A good idea, but a very bad deal. Not the first time this has been done of course, as there was the Canadian high school that did this with Sony ( http://www.photoxels.com/high-school...ks-for-ebooks/) last year. |
At least the Canadian school bought into a reader that's more library and Google-friendly. Of course, the intent could be to limit the kids to just textbooks, in which case, it doesn't matter.