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
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