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Textbooks Being Made Obsolete by Amazon Kindle
Almost one year ago, Amazon launched the Kindle with the sole purpose of cornering the digital books market. For those of you that don’t know, this gadget is a fully functional digital library. Since...
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Princeton Students to Expel Kindle DX from Class
In a pilot program at Princeton to assess the value of Amazon’s Kindle DX for students, it seems the class has graded the gadget as a no pass.Fifty students were given the digital e-reader in the test,...
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Kindle Lawsuit Awards Wronged Student
In July 2009, Amazon decided to remove some content from thousands of Kindles. They removed every copy of George Orwell’s 1984, including the notes high school student Justin Gawronski’s had taken for...
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Apple Might Partner with McGraw-Hill on New Tablet
Within the next few days, Apple is expected to release its newest multimedia gadget, the Tablet. This device will allow users to play games, surf the web, watch TV, check out the latest headlines from...
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iPad iBooks and Kindle DX for Textbook Comparison
Last week’s announcement by Apple CEO Steve Jobs about the release of the company’s newest gadget, the iPad, has set the e-reader world ablaze. For a few years, Amazon’s Kindle has lead that market,...
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Kindle Like Dual-Screen Reader Aimed at Education Market
Reports of the, up until now, stealth company KaKai are surfacing of a “kindle like” device aimed solely at the education market. Osman Rashid, who also owns Chegg, a textbook rental company, is said...
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Textbooks on the Kindle Are Cheaper and Lighter to Carry
If you are a tech-savvy college student, then this is some news that will make you smile: textbooks are now being offered on Amazon’s Kindle and they are cheaper than the paper versions of the...
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