Re: E-books Fail The Classroom Test

Hi, do you infer that ebooks as text books are really unpopular, or are they
OK as text books when read on a computer?  Thanks, Ed.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:19 AM, joseph harris <[email protected]> wrote:

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> [It is interesting that the thumbs down comes from students.]
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> E-books Fail The Classroom Test
> Posted at 8:05AM Monday 06 Sep 2010
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> Expectations were high a year ago when seven US colleges, including two
> business schools, University of Washington Foster School of Business and the
> University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, signed up with Amazon to
> test the online retailer's large-screen Kindle DX e-book reader.
> But while students liked some of the Kindle's features most were unhappy
> overall with the user experience.
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> http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/29087
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> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e185bce2-b76a-11df-839a-00144feabdc0.html
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> http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%22E-books+fail+the+classroom+test%22+site%3A+ft.com&fp=1&cad=b
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> '...
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> In fact, by the second semester, most students had abandoned their Kindles,
> choosing instead to read case studies on their laptop or on paper. In a
> mid-term survey, the pilot scheme participants were asked: “Would you
> recommend the Kindle DX to an incoming Darden MBA student?
>
> “A total of 75-80 per cent answered ‘no’,” says Mr Koenig. Kindle-using
> students were then asked: “Would you recommend the Kindle DX to an incoming
> MBA student as a personal reading device?” A total of 90-95 per cent said
> “yes”....'
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> '... Kindle is “not flexible enough ... It could be clunky. You can’t move
> between pages, documents, charts and graphs simply or easily enough compared
> to the paper alternatives.”...'
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> '...For the past 22 years, Grenoble students have been asked to have a PC.
> “The question now is to find out whether the iPad will replace PCs,” says
> Marc Humbert, head of the Innovation Laboratory. “We may find that the iPad
> is less ‘intrusive’ than a PC, which, when open in the classroom, is like a
> barrier between the student and faculty.”...'
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> [This last perplexes me (to put it politely). If the PC is a barrier i nthe
> classroom it is ridiculous to stay with it, surely?]
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