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View Poll Results: Is the Kindle DX decently priced? | |||
Yes. | 63 | 60.00% | |
No. | 31 | 29.52% | |
I am not sure. | 11 | 10.48% | |
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05-06-2009, 10:42 PM | #16 |
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True, I'm sold.
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05-06-2009, 10:43 PM | #17 | |
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05-06-2009, 11:19 PM | #18 | |
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Also, will students use the Kindle Store, a 'special' Kindle Store, or will the campus booksellers load the ebook directly onto the device, with some sort of special DRM foo to prevent casual copying? Maybe they are still figuring that part out. Note Amazon & Co. are not exactly jumping into the educational market with both feet: 5 universities is at most a marketing test. I'm sure publishers are very concerned about potential for piracy and need to gather some data so they can refine the business model before committing more fully. However in the long term, I think 'open-source' eTextbooks and online resources will drive profits out of this equation, since production costs are essentially zero for everybody. Just as wikipedia has killed encyclopedia sales in all forms. I think it would lead to better, more current course material and help reduce cost of education, which I believe is in everyone's interest (except textbook publishers and retailers..). |
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05-07-2009, 03:13 PM | #19 | |
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05-07-2009, 03:16 PM | #20 |
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Well not if you are a lot of people cooperating. Wikipedia like authoring systems for textbooks will probably kill the textbook market.
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05-07-2009, 04:26 PM | #21 |
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the first time around maybe. how many times have you had to get the umpteenth issue of a textbook and the major difference is that the page numbers are different?
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05-07-2009, 09:12 PM | #22 |
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I agree, with the $30 less comment. $450 would be a nice price point for more people. However I'm still getting one! I think I would have bought one even if it was $550 hehe.
Now hopefully Apple don't release a 9.5" Toucshcreen color tablet in June, that will really hurt my bank account.. |
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