Post by jeffolie on Jul 19, 2011 12:01:39 GMT -6
digital textbooks at Amazon, shorting opportunities?
I discussed digital textbooks concepts with my 3 adult children that now buy college textbooks many times. The saving potential and efficiency seem obvious. Often college professors ignore the textbooks and lecture from their own selected materials while pissing off students that spend upto $1000 in a full semester for textbooks and lab books.
Environmentalist must be happy while the paper industry and textbook publishing stocks looks to be headed for a decline. The music industry went down this path resulting in free, pirated music between filing swapping site. You rarely see a Music store retailer anymore. One of my college attending daughters told me that pirated textbooks are already online as well as some sold legitimately. Textbooks could easily become 'cloud' server products.
Shorting stocks that publish textbooks seems like a possible idea.
How long until Apple, colleges and others compete with Amazon to provide digital texbooks?
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Amazon.com launches Kindle textbook rentals with up to 80% off
July 18, 2011
Amazon.com launched Kindle textbook rentals, promising "tens of thousands of textbooks" at discounts of as much as 80% less than purchase price on Monday.
Students can rent a textbook for as little as 30 days or up to 360 days, with fees differing depending on how long the book is rented, Amazon said in a statement.
Rentals can be read on Amazon's Kindle eReaders, as well as Kindle apps for Macs and PCs, as well as smartphones and tablet computers running Apple's iOS, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and Google's Android operating system.
Once the rental period for a textbook is up, students can choose to either purchase books or rent them again if needed for a period as little as one extra day, the Seattle-based online retailer said.
Among the publishers offering rentals through Amazon are John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis.
"We've done a little something extra we think students will enjoy," said Dave Limp, vice president of Amazon's Kindle unit. "Normally, when you sell your print textbook at the end of the semester you lose all the margin notes and highlights you made as you were studying. We're extending our Whispersync technology so that you get to keep and access all of your notes and highlighted content in the Amazon Cloud, available anytime, anywhere -- even after a rental expires. If you choose to rent again or buy at a later time, your notes will be there just as you left them."
latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/07/amazoncom-offering-up-to-80-discounts-on-kindle-textbook-rentals.html
I discussed digital textbooks concepts with my 3 adult children that now buy college textbooks many times. The saving potential and efficiency seem obvious. Often college professors ignore the textbooks and lecture from their own selected materials while pissing off students that spend upto $1000 in a full semester for textbooks and lab books.
Environmentalist must be happy while the paper industry and textbook publishing stocks looks to be headed for a decline. The music industry went down this path resulting in free, pirated music between filing swapping site. You rarely see a Music store retailer anymore. One of my college attending daughters told me that pirated textbooks are already online as well as some sold legitimately. Textbooks could easily become 'cloud' server products.
Shorting stocks that publish textbooks seems like a possible idea.
How long until Apple, colleges and others compete with Amazon to provide digital texbooks?
===================================================
Amazon.com launches Kindle textbook rentals with up to 80% off
July 18, 2011
Amazon.com launched Kindle textbook rentals, promising "tens of thousands of textbooks" at discounts of as much as 80% less than purchase price on Monday.
Students can rent a textbook for as little as 30 days or up to 360 days, with fees differing depending on how long the book is rented, Amazon said in a statement.
Rentals can be read on Amazon's Kindle eReaders, as well as Kindle apps for Macs and PCs, as well as smartphones and tablet computers running Apple's iOS, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and Google's Android operating system.
Once the rental period for a textbook is up, students can choose to either purchase books or rent them again if needed for a period as little as one extra day, the Seattle-based online retailer said.
Among the publishers offering rentals through Amazon are John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis.
"We've done a little something extra we think students will enjoy," said Dave Limp, vice president of Amazon's Kindle unit. "Normally, when you sell your print textbook at the end of the semester you lose all the margin notes and highlights you made as you were studying. We're extending our Whispersync technology so that you get to keep and access all of your notes and highlighted content in the Amazon Cloud, available anytime, anywhere -- even after a rental expires. If you choose to rent again or buy at a later time, your notes will be there just as you left them."
latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/07/amazoncom-offering-up-to-80-discounts-on-kindle-textbook-rentals.html