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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. |
Generally in the US, in government schools, textboks are bought by the state or school district. So, they would probably have had to do some negotiating between the Textbook publishers and Amazon in order to get the best possible combination price. They didn't say, but I bet the price quoted is with all textbooks loaded. In which case, it may be an exceptionally GOOD price