electronic textbooks

Amazon's (AMZN) unveiling of the Kindle DX, designed in part for digital textbooks, is probably the first exposure many people have had to this revolution in publishing, but Amazon is not first to the table with the idea. In fact, it faces strong competition from an established market presence,...

Our sister blog Engadget.com is reporting that Amazon (AMZN) will unveil a new, larger Kindle electronic reader tomorrow. Students at several universities are to participate in a trial of the reader's usefulness to academia, using e-versions of their textbooks. The new reader should also be of...