Ebook profitable model

Give me an open, Android-based device, with a touch-screen, keyboard and Internet connection (cellular or WiFi; it really doesn’t matter), a forward-looking publishing company, and an open e-textbook file format, and I’ll give you a paradigm in which students and schools save a lot of money, while providing students with easy access to resources in textbooks and on the web.

You have the best of both worlds in ways that the Kindle (due to its closed software, limited ecosystem, display limitations, and crappy web browser) or the XO (due to its hardware limitations, lack of appeal to anyone but the Pre-K through 5 set, and limited ecosystem) simply cannot.

Can this be done for a reasonable price? I don’t know, but nobody is going to object if a consortium of textbook publishers, hardware manufacturers, and software developers wanted to put together a reference spec. The old adage of “Build it and they will come” would hopefully follow shortly thereafter. This can even be a profitable model for all involved, while saving trees and money for students and schools.

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