Monday, August 8, 2011

eBook Reader Competition

eBook Reader Competition,
Amazon Adds Another Advantage

Help to save college students as much as 80% in comparison with the original price.
Ebook reader competition in the market tighter, consumers are increasingly disadvantaged. Amazon adds another advantage, that renting electronic books can help to save college students as much as 80% in comparison with the original price. Notes and annotations may be stored by Amazon after the loan period runs out, to be used if the book is either re-rented or even purchased, a company statement explained.

The announcement comes nearly one year after Barnes & Noble announced its own textbook rental plan back in August of 2010. However, it's not yet clear whether textbook rentals will take off in the United States. Apparently, publishers aren't all that keen on providing textbooks in electronic form.

"Both Barnes & Noble and Amazon are mostly on the same side, as the bigger problem they have right now is textbook content," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

Amazon announced its Kindle textbook rental program which joins the money-saving textbook options offered by Barnes & Noble and Chegg
Starting your college career is a series of financial challenges.  Even those who have scrimped and saved to pay for tuition and attend our excellent and relatively affordable state schools find that the tuition is just a starting point.

This will encompass tens of thousands of textbooks for the 2011 school year from leading publishers like John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier, the online retail giant said.

Students can rent books for between 30 and 60 days and will be able to extend rental periods. The program will provide students savings of up to 80 percent of the textbooks' list prices, according to Amazon.

Amazon revealed recently that e-book versions of college textbooks will be obtainable for rent at durations of anywhere between one month and one year. When e-books have been rented, the loan period may be prolonged by as little as one day. Tens of thousands of electronic textbooks are now obtainable for the 2011 college year as reported by a Amazon in a press release, via publishers that include Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons and also Taylor & Francis.

The electronic textbooks are readily available for download to, and can be read on Amazon’s Kindle, their electronic reader. As Kindle reading software is available for PC, Mac, iPad as well as numerous smartphones, the books can also be offered to people using different platforms. Elsevier, publishers that specialize in scientific textbooks, are one of several major publishers associated with this latest rental option, and they will offer around 3,000 electronic titles.

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Kindle and Google versions

The images to the left, above, are of Kindle and Google versions of a book I ran across last week, when I was surprised at the price difference.
Google has this bio by Michael Munn for $14.72, while the Kindle price is $0.99

 
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