Re: [LM_NET] SHARE: Amazon Kindle

[Peter Butts <pbutts61@YAHOO.COM>]

My first response is "cool! How can I justify the cost to get one?" But my second 
response is more suspicious. The Kindle looks like an ideal device for textbooks 
and when one considers the cost of college textbooks, the initial $399 price tag 
doesn't seem outrageous at all. That's where the suspicious part comes in. Is this 
Amazon's "Trojan Horse" to take over the textbook market? And then I begin 
wondering about the long-term questions: If this does work as a textbook delivery 
system, what kind of model can we create to deliver library books and other 
resources via the same platform? .....and I still want one.
 
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Peter Butts
Library Media Specialist
Amberly Elementary School
Portage, MI 49008
http://amberlymedia.edublogs.org
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"if you're not getting answers,
ask better questions."
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----- Original Message ----
From: Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:30:15 PM
Subject: SHARE: Amazon Kindle

If you have the November 26th issue of Newsweek, take a look at the
article about the new "ebook" product (much like the Sony
eReader)...this is the Amazon Kindle.  It looks like a lot of fun and
some great potential---if it could sync with the online databases, I'd
love it even more!!

(Now, when the price goes down signficantly (it's $400), I'll purchase
some for my library!)  In the meantime, I may have to ask Santa for
one to try out....love these gadgets!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FI73MA/ref=pd_sl_aw_manual-1_kindle1_40650458_2

~Shonda

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Shonda Brisco, MLIS
District Librarian
Peaster ISD
Weatherford, TX 76086

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