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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
Just spotted this interesting article on the front page of today's edition of The Dallas Morning News regarding text books in electronic form. They're mostly referring to viewing textbooks on a laptop, but they also mention the Kindle.
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An interesting sector of the market. As a father of a 16yo in tandem with my own education years, I have learned how much of a racket the school book market is. The inflated prices, the insider dealing between teacher/authors, their books, and the farce of totally unjustified 'new versions' coming out every year.
I would guess this will be a big sacred cow for this sector of the publishing industry and a real test of the power of users.
The advantages are enormous. Large bags of books and the inevitable losses of them by students during the year. And the biggest gain in my personal view is the widespread physical damage being done to the backs of students around the world by these huge books.
Saoir