Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Amazon to Market New E-Reader to Colleges

Amazon plans to enter the student textbook market with a new version of its Kindle e-book reader.  Publishers now offer online versions of their textbooks, but a portable, workable e-book reader has not yet drawn publishers to design their textbook content for this niche of the marketplace.  The new model of Kindle is likely to include student-friendly features like an  annotation maker.  Read more in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.