Digital Text Books

The future is now. Finally we're starting to get serious about digitizing text books. But don't think you'll save hundreds annually by getting all your college text books free throught Bit Torrents. You know the management teams of printed textbooks don't want to lose their cash cows. You know the thousands of university college bookstores don't want to lose their on campus monopolies'. Yes, you guessed correct...Amazon's Kindle has companies like Sony and Apple scrambling to create a similiar product to sell to you. Early adapters always pay preme prices for the newest must have gadget. These things will be selling for as much as a new mid-level budget PC or high end notebook. How many gadgets can we carry at one time?



On the day after Christmas, Amazon said the Kindle was the most-purchased gift in its history and sales of its electronic books surpassed physical book sales on the holiday itself. Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 for rendering and displaying e-books and other digital media



Now Coursesmart, a joint venture of five textbook publishers, shows how students might use tablet-based textbooks. It is based on their own renderings, not specific applications being developed with Apple.

Can we see people buying two ebook readers? One for Standard Print Books and one for School Text Books? In 2005 the concept of a tablet laptops was gaining momentum -it faded fast. By 2007 the selection, power and price points on laptops under $1,000 was motivating record levels of buyers. In 2009 regardless of the greatest American recession notebooks where flying off the shelf's at $399 price points.

Given there's nothing extremely unique behind any of these technologies, can anyone see one primary light-weight high-powered device that does it all. Assuming we'll always want a very small mobile phone, I referring to the possibility of the Tablet PC/Laptop returning to the lime-light. What do you think?