http://www.edukindle.com/2009/05/why-educators-should-mourn-the-departure-of-the-sd-chip-slot-from-the-kindle-2/ eReaders for Educators Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edukindle.com/2009/05/why-educators-should-mourn-the-departure-of-the-sd-chip-slot-from-the-kindle-2/comment-page-1/#comment-125 VAD Thu, 28 May 2009 16:33:38 +0000 http://www.edukindle.com/?p=353#comment-125 Typically for hardcovers I'm seeing the cost savings are $10 and softcovers around $2 to $4 per book if you only had one kindle attached to one account. However, you can put an infinite amount of kindles per account, and up to six of them can simultaneously have rights to a typical book. So the cost of a typical paper back would go from $10 traditional paper and $8 for a ebook to only $1.33 per copy of the ebook ($8 divided by 6 copies). That's a tremendous savings of 87 percent. You get these also without the costs of storage space and shipping fees. You also have free access to wikipedia for research. I'm thinking this is actually very much worth it for common textbooks and reading materials that would otherwise need each student having individual copies. Obviously, for research books on specialty topics, paper books still probably make sense as it would be logistically impossible to try to figure out which kindle had which collection of books. For things like library books in schools, it would make sense for Amazon to allow the rights to be granted to kindles and revoked by a librarian who has purchased a copy and allow them to remove rights after a certain period of time. In that case though, think of the advantages, no overdue books, ever. No lost books, no damaged books, no fines....I'm thinking this makes sense in a wide variety of situations. Kids in the middle of the night could research and then check out a central copy of the book. Typically for hardcovers I’m seeing the cost savings are $10 and softcovers around $2 to $4 per book if you only had one kindle attached to one account. However, you can put an infinite amount of kindles per account, and up to six of them can simultaneously have rights to a typical book. So the cost of a typical paper back would go from $10 traditional paper and $8 for a ebook to only $1.33 per copy of the ebook ($8 divided by 6 copies). That’s a tremendous savings of 87 percent. You get these also without the costs of storage space and shipping fees. You also have free access to wikipedia for research. I’m thinking this is actually very much worth it for common textbooks and reading materials that would otherwise need each student having individual copies. Obviously, for research books on specialty topics, paper books still probably make sense as it would be logistically impossible to try to figure out which kindle had which collection of books. For things like library books in schools, it would make sense for Amazon to allow the rights to be granted to kindles and revoked by a librarian who has purchased a copy and allow them to remove rights after a certain period of time. In that case though, think of the advantages, no overdue books, ever. No lost books, no damaged books, no fines….I’m thinking this makes sense in a wide variety of situations. Kids in the middle of the night could research and then check out a central copy of the book.

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