or they can be done in a way that could limit students' choices even more and do nothing to reduce the high costs."
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The non-profit California Public Interest Research Group had a similar finding in its own survey that year.Įmily Rusch, CALPIRG state director, said digital textbooks "can be done in a way that gives students more power and more affordable options. A 2005 report by the federal Government Accountability Office said the average annual costs for textbooks is $900 a year for students at four-year public colleges. Textbooks are not only weighty, they're expensive, of course. No phone or netbook can even begin to compare with the DX, which can be left on for three or four days with Wi-Fi on and still have plenty of juice. The DX does have a huge advantage over phones and laptops when it comes to battery life, the bane of modern electronics.
AMAZON KINDLE DX SOFTWARE
That isn't likely to be the case with an 18.9-ounce device like the DX.Ī's Kindle e-reader software is available for the iPhone, for example, and will likely be coming out in versions for other smartphones and devices. Almost all of us carry our phones with us all the time. While not everyone's reading news on their computers and phones, more people are. Better they should focus on the Web and mobile Web versions of their papers. Some newspaper publishers are reportedly working on their own e-reader devices.
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Reading a newspaper on the DX takes some getting used to it's a little more cumbersome having to go back and forth from stories, rather than accessing the same information on one or two Web pages with the click of a mouse. And it's certainly easy and fast to download a newspaper - or books - using the Kindle's wireless Internet connection.
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Print publications such as The New York Times and Washington Post hope the DX is the kind of device that will help keep subscribers onboard.