Next month Apple will release the long-awaited iPad device. As a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle, what does this possibly mean for college students? As any student will tell you, forking over 700 or 800 bucks a semester for books is crazy. Especially when only a few chapters may be necessary. With the iPads release, may it finally be time for mass adoption of digital books?
Many textbook companies are lining up to take advantage of these new devices. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson and McGraw-Hill signed with the software company ScrollMotion to adapt textbooks specifically for the iPad. It will be interesting to see how Apple’s bookstore fares as well as the introductory price of $499 for the base model of the iPad.