Here’s one really smart idea that will convert a few Kindle-haters: textbooks. Princeton University Press join Oxford, Yale and the UC in putting some of their titles into e-book form, allowing students to bypass the used book store and directly download their textbooks onto their Kindles. You’ll save a few bucks for the digital version, plus shipping costs and shipping time. And if you figure out a way to hack it, that’s like, free textbooks dude. Whoa. We see this extended to concerned parents of elementary school kids who’ve been complaining about how many textbooks they have to lug from home to school and back. Then again, maybe that’s why your kids are so fat. [Yahoo Buzz via CSMonitor]
eric
Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 4:29 AMWe’re a new startup textbook publisher, Flat World Knowledge ( http://www.flatworldknowledge.com ). We came from careers at Prentice Hall and McGraw-Hill. Beginning in spring, we’re making 8 business and economics textbooks available for free online, and we’ll be scaling up from there. Students can get them in other forms for reasonable prices – $29.95 for b/w print book, $19.95 for an audio book, and we’re thinking about making the book available for $19.95 (whole book) or $1.99 per chapter on Kindle.
Of course, this is not of use to you unless your professor adopts our book, but we’ll begin selling and marketing our books to professors later this fall.