Hmmm... strikes me as another attempt to extract rents from an already
monopolistic market ("you must use textbook X for this course and you will
pay Y"). 80% off list price for a 30 day rental? So if I want it for a year,
that's about 240% of list price....? Nice business model.—R On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting: digital rental of text books at amazon: > http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16101 > > Others have done this sort of thing but this is pretty big-time. And I > notice that this is not only for the kindle device, but also for your > computer, phone, ipad via their kindle apps, which now allow color, even > though the kindle itself is black/white only. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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