Today Amazon announced the opening of its new Kindle Textbooks store (www.amazon.com/kindletextbooks). Titles will be available to rent for periods from 30 to 360 days, and you can increase the rental period in increments as small as one day, or purchase license the book outright at any point. Amazon is crowing that students can save [...]
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Amazon offering 56 TextVook mini titles for free
Vook, the company that mixes audio and video with ebooks, has just released a new line called TextVook. The titles are short (about 4,000 words) and offer concise overviews of topics from subjects like science, law, and world history. They fall somewhere between an old-fashioned encyclopedia article and an edited Wikipedia entry. About 20 of [...]
Today's bargain book: "Curious Folks Ask" by Sherry Seethaler
Price: $0.00 Note: This was temporarily free back in July, then the price went up. Now it’s free again for a short time. Summary: Prepare to Be Fascinated! * Why does the flu change every year? * What makes glue sticky? * What causes out-of-body experiences? * Are all brands of gas the same? * [...]
Today's bargain book: "Curious Folks Ask" by Sherry Seethaler
“Curious Folks Ask” by Sherry Seethaler Price: $0.00 Summary: Prepare to Be Fascinated! * Why does the flu change every year? * What makes glue sticky? * What causes out-of-body experiences? * Are all brands of gas the same? * Will adult stem cells work as well as embryonic stem cells? * Is one “horsepower” [...]
Giant-sized Kindle DX looks awesome, comes at a giant-sized price
Well, I was hoping to see some sort of subsidy announcement today from the newspapers when Amazon announced its big-screen Kindle DX, and while the New York Times did say that they’ll do just that at some point later this year, it will be in a limited capacity, meaning only offered in areas where daily [...]
Update: Amazon's large format Kindle to be tested at universities this fall
The Wall Street Journal has dug up some more details about tomorrow’s Kindle announcement, this time regarding the education and textbook market. Here’s the summary: Select students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given Kindle devices this fall that will be pre-loaded with textbooks for certain classes. The University hopes to compare [...]