New Kindle aimed at college textbooks?
Amazon’s new Kindle will be targeted at college students, according to reports surfacing about tomorrow’s Amazon announcement.
Students will receive large-screen Kindles with pre-loaded textbooks at six universities – Princeton University, Case Western, Pace University, Reed College, Darden School at the University of Virginia, and Arizona State University. This good fortune for students will start this fall, and at least one university (Case Western) plans to compare the experiences of students with Kindles with students using traditional textbooks.
Intriguingly, the new Kindle will feature a more functional web browser, according to Case Western’s CIO, Lev Gonick.
The new Kindle will also reportedly be compatible with PDF files – a very welcome feature that I hope is extended to the Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 models as well.