Tuesday, January 4, 2011

eBook readers

Well, we broke down and bought a Nook for Christmas, so I've been thinking about how I would create my class materials for students who have an eBook reader to prevent their having to carry around a messy, spiral-bound paper copy that falls apart regularly. Probably wouldn't be hard to make a PDF of the whole thing on our snazzy multifunction copier that scans to PDF.

So that got me to thinking how great it would be for publishers to turn those ginormous science books that cripple the kids into ebooks. And how less expensive distribution and order processing would be for the publishers.

Today I came across this article on a listserv:

Where are all the ebooks?

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