Eric Frantz_

Amazon: New Kindle To Tap $5.5 Billion Textbook Market?

A college student myself, I can attest that books are a pain. But the Kindle will need to be a very streamlined product with an abundance of features to make it truly desirable for many students. Highlighting and taking notes in a hard copy book is easy. I imagine it is somewhat harder on the Kindle. Does anyone know if there a big difference in the cost of buying the book for the Kindle as opposed to the book in hard copy? It needs to be big enough that students can actually save money over their four years. Furthermore, there is a big market for used books. I am not all that familiar with the Kindle so correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it is not likely that a student could buy a "used" online book for cheaper that the "new" online book. Lastly, I rarely have to carry more than two books at once and often only have to have my laptop for class.

This is a great idea and is quit possible in the future, but there really needs to be a huge advantage to buying the Kindle before students will be willing to go an spend hundreds more dollars just to save some weight.

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