OReilly's Safari likely would be better: a fixed price ($22/mo for standard)
for a fixed number of books (10 for standard) that can change over time.
OReilly has been bring in other publishers, so may include textbooks
eventually. Still, as you point out, its not cheap .. > $200/year .. but
that's less than the textbooks themselves.
It is a bit awkward: you get "online" access to your entire "shelf" but not
download access, which is metered out a bit at a time using "download"
tokens for parts of a book as a pdf. Probably can game the system, but
basically there isn't a way yet to own a pdf yet lend it to someone. DRM of
some sort.
Do you know how UK's Open University handles text books? I believe its
fully accredited, right?
-- Owen
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Robert Holmes <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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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