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Originally Posted by Panurge
2. e-book devices will begin to dominate when they are the norm in education, from high school (or even elementary school) to graduate school. The key is not to sell bestsellers on these devices but to get children accustomed to them from the beginning (and relieve them of carrying 30-40 pounds of books around in a backpack).
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I see it as a problem right now.
When I bought my reader, I showed it to 3 full time IT tutors in a college. 2 of them are hardware/networking guys and the third one is lady who is teaching VB. The lady is reading a lot of books and always traveling with some paperbacks. They were interested in the device until they learned the price of £250. They said: What? So expensive for a device that allows you to read books? And you still have to pay for content? No way. The lady said: when I travel, I can always exchange books I have finished to read for other books. Wherever I stay there are always a few bookshelves where people leave paperback books they finished to read and may take a few to continue my journey. All of this almost for free because all I have to pay is for the few paperback books I have at the beginning of my journey.
If I could not convince IT tutors in the convenience of eInk reading device, I don't see how it will be possible in the near future, say 5 years at least to convince anyone else in the education.