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Originally Posted by purl4peace
Unfortunately, October 2009 will be too late. I think the Kindle is being released in Summer so they can be out in time for the fall semester.
Several years ago UNC-CH made all students purchase a particular laptop (or maybe gave them to all students??) so that all students would have the same standard platform.
Considering Amazon is setting up pilot projects at 5 separate universities, they are really hoping to capture the student market...
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I do hope they show students how the textbooks are rendered first (in .mobi, as they won't be able to highlight/save anything in pdfs for later viewing/reminders), as it hardly seems the best choice for a reflowable text book with important images, tables and (usually, springer, mcgrawhill) non-standard page sizes, because I'm having trouble believing it will be pretty.