On Mar 19, at 11:09 AM, Rick Burnett wrote:
If you could get textbooks at a reasonable price on the Kindle (even on a time-limited basis), I think that it could be big for higher education. No more lugging around 30lbs of books, all of the hassles associated with campus bookstores, and searching within the text... A undergraduates dream. Now of course us grad students are still tied to other things. Although I do see that Papers is now available for the iPhone... hmmm....
For the last few years, I've been using books in advanced courses that are available for download. For example, this semester, I'm teaching the second semester of the senior/graduate real analysis sequence and the text is Elementary Real Analysis (a deceptive title) by Thomson, Bruckner and Bruckner. It's available as a traditional book for regular book prices and as a PDF-file download from youpublish.com for much less money.
Not many students have the paper version.
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