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I use my iLiad in my doctoral program constantly. At the level of courses I'm taking now, most of the readings are journal articles, which I download in PDF form from JStore, etc. I make notes on the PDF files (I've never been one to write in books, but I did have a habit of writing on printed PDFs), and I take notes in class as well. But the iLiad is quite expensive, and still doesn't have on-board HWR or notes search, and the UI isn't that great. If Amazon can provide a system for lower cost that covers these features, I think graduate students, at least, would be enthusiastic, and that could lead more publishers to try textbooks in ebook format, leading to undergraduates using a unit like this as well. Of course, there are also open-source textbooks from Wikimedia and others, but I think most universities are too tied to faculty-authored (or at least faculty-selected) textbooks for these to quite take over the market. Yet.
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