e-Textbooks and the Amazon Kindle

This morning, I was forwarded a query from a Cornell undergraduate, noting the impending announcement tomorrow of a new, larger screen Amazon Kindle and linking to a Wall Street Journal story on its potential use as an electronic textbook. He suggested that Cornell should consider signing up as one of the universities making this device [...]

eBooks Heat Up

There is a lot of very interesting recent activity in the eBooks arena, and it’s been generating a lot of comment in the new and old media. Here are four recent events that I found particularly noteworthy:
Google Book Search Mobile
Google has released a mobile version of Google Books, with over 1.5 million public domain volumes [...]