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Old 05-07-2009, 01:08 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by lilac_jive View Post
I think they're missing the biggest thing here targeting the student market = buying back textbooks. Students at the end of the semester sell their books back to bookstores, which helps with the cost of them (or booze, whichever). When I was a student, they had a few books available as ebooks, but the price was only $5 or so less (for a $200+ textbook). I think a lot of students will pass on that.

Heh, if you think Amazon is bad, textbook companies are way way way worse
Do you think the Kindle version will cost as much as the paper version? If they cost significantly less, there may be no need to re-sell.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if sharing books on the same account will work with the DX or if textbook licensing will prohibit that. It would be cool if students could group together on one account and share textbooks (provided they share many of the same classes).
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