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Barnes & Noble says its Nook e-book device was not built with college students in mind. “Nook is not designed to be a textbook reader,” said Jade Roth, the companys vice president of books. “Nook is really designed to be an e-reader for pleasure, for relaxation on the go — not really for the educational space.”
Amazon said the same thing about its first-generation Kindle, but a few months ago it unveiled a larger model that it says works well for e-textbooks. Amazon is running pilot projects at seven universities this semester to see how students and professors respond to the devices.
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If you have a Kindle or Kindle e-Book software for your computer or mobile device (e.g.; iPhone), you can get a small library of free books from Amazon like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and more.
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Blackboard today announced support for Amazon.com’s Kindle electronic book reader through a new Blackboard Building Block. It’s being released as open source software.
The new Blackboard Building Block for e-Readers let’s users take content from Blackboard Learn and, through the Kindle Personal Document Service, send it to the Kindle to access it from any location. According to Blackboard, the service supports “texts, documents and other material from the Blackboard Learn platform.”
[Source: Campus Technology]
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A Princeton University plan to use Amazon.com’s Kindle electronic reader device to replace textbooks and other printed material could face legal challenges because some advocates for the blind say the device is not accessible to the visually impaired.
[Source: Daily Princetonian]
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What’s in it for the universities?
Case Western’s president, Barbara R. Snyder, said concern over the high price of printed textbooks was a primary motivation (electronic versions of textbooks are typically half the price of their printed counterparts). “Our students are definitely interested in learning of ways to reduce the cost of what they have to pay for their course materials,” she said.
For Princeton, the goal is to save paper — and therefore trees. “Over 10 million pages were printed last year by students” in campus computer labs, said Serge J. Goldstein, associate CIO and director of academic services at Princeton. He said that as the university has made more library books available on electronic reserve, paper usage has soared.
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The first thing I notice about the new Kindle DX — shown Wednesday morning at a news conference in New York — is that it still seems small. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If it is going to replicate a newspaper or textbook, you don’t want some clunky thing to lug around.
[Source: New York Times]
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