Update: Amazon’s large format Kindle to be tested at universities this fall

Chris Walters — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:15:54 +0000

The Wall Street Journal has dug up some more details about tomorrow’s Kindle announcement, this time regarding the education and textbook market. Here’s the summary:

Select students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given Kindle devices this fall that will be pre-loaded with textbooks for certain classes. The University hopes to compare their experiences with students using traditional print textbooks;
Five other universities are participating with Amazon on the program, although the WSJ doesn’t give a date for when they’ll distribute the bigger sized Kindles to students. They are: Pace, Princeton, Reed, Darden School at the University of Virginia, and Arizona State.

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