Universities Will Not Deploy Kindle DX as Textbook Reader
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Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can’t use it
AP – “Amazon’s Kindle can read books aloud, but if you’re blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup. The National Federation of the Blind planned to announce Wednesday that the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University won’t consider big rollouts of the electronic reading device unless Amazon makes it more accessible to visually impaired students”
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Can libraries, bookstores, and Kindle peacefully coexist?
CSMp – “Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card.” Or so Peter Daining reminds us in his worthy post today on Tainted Green entitled “Libraries: The cheaper, greener alternative to book stores” in which he notes that, “it takes around 30 million trees to produce all the books in the US.” If borrowing a book is not always as speedy as buying one, Daining exhorts us to take this quick pop quiz before we plunk down our dollars for the paperback du jour: “What’s better for the earth, waiting for a week for your neighbor to finish reading a book, or each buying a copy?”
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School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’?
USA Today – “[T]he venerable boarding school west of Boston — the first in the USA to admit both boys and girls — last summer undertook another first: It began getting rid of most of the library’s books. In their place: a fully digital collection.”
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Amazon’s Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Silicon.com – “Legal Eye: Piracy and copyright at forefront as e-books go mainstream”
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Amazon Kindle UK review
Guardian – “Amazon isn’t so much attacking the UK ebook market as permitting its Kindle to be used here.”
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Are we due a wave of book piracy?
BBC – “The Kindle is here. But will the arrival of Amazon’s much-hyped e-book reader prompt a wave of book piracy?”
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The Book That Contains All Books
WSJ – “The globally available Kindle could mark as big a shift for reading as the printing press and the codex.”
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Kindles yet to woo University users
Daily Princetonian – “When the University announced its Kindle e-reader pilot program last May, administrators seemed cautiously optimistic that the e-readers would both be sustainable and serve as a valuable academic tool. But less than two weeks after 50 students received the free Kindle DX e-readers, many of them said they were dissatisfied and uncomfortable with the devices.”
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