Professor Elam

Friday July 2, 2010

Virtually all incoming students will have an e book in their tuition. now how to read it?  Well one thing for sure, the prices of e book readers are tumbling. The analogy in this article of the razors and the blades is a good one. I always thought the reader would have to bundled with some books at a big discount. For students lugging backpacks or travelers doing the same in airports and train stations, this is a great alternative. I can see the iPad being a sort of downscale computer upscale iTouch, but I can also see the advantage of just a low priced reader, think $5 calculator. 

I do see that office depot has a toshiba laptop for 399, pretty cheap…but the e book would no doubt have longer battery life and weigh a lot less