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A Student Experience With Kindle DX

kindle dx is being used as a pilot project n many U.S. universities. The question is whether kindle can replace the paper book. It should be considered from both usability and cost perspective. On amazon kindle forum Christopher A. Hammer have recently expressed his opinion after using kindle dx as part of the university course. [...]

Written on July 31, 2009 | Posted in Kindle DX, Textbooks, feature, review | No comment

Is Amazon Opening Kindle DX Textbook Store On July 1?

Here is some information by Carrie on kindle dx textbook store from KindleBoards discussion group:
I am a college professor and am currently writing a report for our administration on the feasibility of using a kindle for college textbooks. I wrote to the publishers mentioned in Amazon’s May 6 press release (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1285140) and received a [...]

Written on June 7, 2009 | Posted in Textbooks | 2 comments

Kindle 3: 9″ Screen?

Jesse have recetly posted what is “the most interesting content I’ve found on my kindle 2 so far….“ in his blog:
from rcS.d/S05video_primary_init:
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Do you know what it means? Amazon is getting ready with a larger screen kindle. It would be 9 inches. An perhapes, that is going to target textbook market. Would it be kindle 3? We [...]

Written on March 9, 2009 | Posted in Rumor, Textbooks, eBooks | No comment