Slouching towards electronic textbooks
This morning's Wall Street Journal (Tuesday, May 5th) fills out some of the details of a rumored "large screen" ebook reader, a device expected to provide a paperless platform for newspapers, magazines, and ... academic textbooks.
Geoffrey Fowler and Ben Worthen report:
Five other universities are involved in the Kindle project, according to people briefed on the matter. They are Pace, Princeton, Reed, Darden School at the University of Virginia, and Arizona State.Beginning this fall, some students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given large-screen Kindles with textbooks for chemistry, computer science and a freshman seminar already installed, said Lev Gonick, the school's chief information officer. The university plans to compare the experiences of students who get the Kindles and those who use traditional textbooks, he said. ...
The road to e-textsbooks will likely be rough - publishers are reluctant to give up distribution control to Amazon (or Google, or Sony, or Walmart ...), campus bookstores are nervous, and students are likely reluctant to abandon the used textbook marketplace.
Geoffrey A. Fowler and Ben Worthen, Amazon to Launch Kindle for Textbooks, Wall Street Journal, MAY 5, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124146996831184563.html
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Jeffrey Young on the The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog has also picked up on this story. He notes an earlier experiment with the Sony reader: "In an experiment last year at Northwest Missouri State University with another e-book device, made by Sony, students and professors quickly asked for their printed books back. Students were excited by the devices at first, but they became frustrated by how difficult it was to quickly flip through the digital textbooks or make annotations. " http://tinyurl.com/cxuuy6
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