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By Bill Altreuter

I'm starting to see people carrying Kindles. I'm not sure why, but when I do I want to beat them up.

I suppose I see the sense of an e-reader, or an iPad, for something like textbooks. Interactivity might be useful for that sort of thing. I stopped putting out paper versions of the materials I use in my Discovery class years ago-- it seemed wasteful to print stuff that was olny going to be used once, and it was expensive for the students to have to buy it. I doubt that Kindle textbooks are going to be much cheaper, though, and since the user purchases a license rather than an object there is no used market. I'm not sure why, but it also seems to me that the Kindle is going to make it harder for the people who produce content to get paid a fair price for it.

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on February 02, 2010 (boomark / email).