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In spite of all the good arguments for why it doesn't work, Amazon Kindle has launched this program and Amazon usually has a good nose for making the unpalatable profitable.
They are likely to focus on the textbooks that can easily be replaced in order to wrest some share (mind share and dollar share) from Barnes and Noble. If a student can replace several textbooks with ebook editions, at a significant savings per book, and those are the textbooks that don't have special requirements ... even if s/he continues to buy hard cover editions of the remaining books ... Amazon could have a winning product on its hands. I'd much rather lug around a Kindle and three text books than seven text books ... especially if I can save real dollars in term and not have to go through hoops to dispose of them at end of term.
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