Join Dave Gray and me for a thirty-minute conversation about Un-books.
This is the second in a series of conversations on enterprise learning. We’ll begin by talking about opportunities to improve on the age-old model of the book. After that, we’ll let the conversation go where it wants. If we get carried away, we may run for a full hour. Heavy on the give & take. Sessions are recorded. Invite friends and colleagues to join us.
The Un-book
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
10:30 PDT, 1:30 EDT
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Jay, not sure if you have a subscription to Wired Campus re: the Chronicle of higher education, but thought you’d want to see what Amazon’s planning on doing with the Kindle/colleges, and weigh in with your thoughts. (I still need to post on the Future of the Book session for Shaping Youth, but have been off the grid in the Rockies.)
Here’s the link & the blurb:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3268&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
“August 25, 2008
Amazon Plans to Market Its E-Book Reader to Colleges
Amazon is considering entering the student textbook market with a new version of its Kindle e-book reader, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks, but so far there’s not an attractive enough e-book reader, and Amazon aims to fill that void. The college-oriented new model might be larger and include student-friendly features, such as allowing making annotations, according to a technology blog.
Amazon officers also said the high Kindle sales estimates calculated by TechCrunch—a popular blog on internet products and companies—are not accurate. But the electronic company refuses to make public how many e-book reader units it has sold since Kindle was launched last November.—Maria José Viñas”
I also noticed that Amazon is now offering a $100 Kindle rebate via its Associates.