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Amazon's Kindle Is Off to College

by Douglas MacMillan on May 5, 2009

Amazon's Kindle Is Off to College

Amazon's Kindle, launched in 2007, hasn't wowed academia. The electronic book reader is too expensive for many college students, the screen is too small and plain for the diagrams and illustrations found in a typical textbook, and book selection is limited since top education publishers have released only a fraction of their titles in a Kindle-friendly format.

Kindle may start getting a warmer reception in colleges come May 6, when Amazon (AMZN) launches what is expected to be a larger version of its Kindle e-book reader that is more suited to academic publishers. Six universities including Case Western, Pace, and Princeton are partnering with Amazon and major publishers to supply students with the new device in the fall, The Wall Street Journal reports. Details of the name of the device, as well as specific features and price, have not been released. Amazon declined to comment on the report.

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