CourseSmart is in the same boat as the Kindle with its cross platform e-content distribution model. Overall, this is an excellent move that should give college students more choice when it comes to acquiring their traditionally expensive materials.
CES is like the nerd show that keeps on giving. My father spent lots of time with tons of devices today. His impressions will come later tonight. Here’s the straight up news of happened today at CES about ereaders and ebooks!
Plastic Logic QUE proReader in-depth video hands-on (Engadget)
Skiff and Marvell make it easy(er) for people to build their own e-ink devices (sorta) (Engadget)
Borders is the ebook store of choice for the Alex (mediabistro)
Mediabistro’s hands on with the Entourage eDGe (mediabistro)
COOL-ER reader was apparently developed in less than 8 months, is #1 in Europe (mediabistro)
Interview with CourseSmart’s Frank Lyman (mediabistro)
Pixel Qi promises screens in devices in 2010 (Engadget)
Speaking of Pixel Qi screens in devices, here’s the Notion Ink Adam (Engadget)
Bookeen debuts Orizon touchscreen ebook reader (Engadget)
Best selling author talks about ereaders and ebooks (mediabistro)
More time with Havnon’s WISEreader ereader lineup (Engadget)
Enough with the ereaders already, says Gawker (mediabistro)
There you have it! Our own hands on impressions coming later tonight.
I blogged about this video very briefly yesterday, but I’m more at liberty to go into detail today. CourseSmart was one of the first services to offer digital textbooks directly to students. The goal was to make more textbooks accessible to more students while lowering costs. The lowering costs thing can be debated as CS was founded by a coalition of textbook publishers. Either way, it’s had a pretty fair amount of success, boasting over 8,500 titles available and offering huge savings per book.
I for one am going to keep a very close ear on what they have to announce during the coming week.
Always reassuring.
