Democratic Group’s Proposal: Give Each Student a Kindle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com#comments#comments

Democratic Group’s Proposal: Give Each Student a Kindle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com#comments#comments: "In all, we need more innovations in textbook content construction and delivery - along with other innovations in platforms like *better* eBooks and NetBooks. What about content delivery on mobile phones (that’s already here, and soon we’ll have small, portable foldout screens that we can hook up to our phones when we want to read something at length. So, who needs Amazon’s eBook? or for that matter, *anyone’s* eBook? Let consumers choose the delivery platform they want. Require platform vendors to agree on a national standard for accepting digital content (textbook) files, and voila!, we get competition on the technology platform, driving prices down - and innovation on the content creation side, further driving prices down."