IPDemocracy on Amazon’s Kindle: It’s for the students, stupid.
Monday, November 19th, 2007Tens of millions of people do have immediate needs for books and they’re called students. Or the parents of students. From high school on up, students are frequently asked to read or access scholarly or important books not available at Barnes and Noble or even the campus book store or even school libraries. Crises then ensue.
Ask any parent of an eleventh-grader how much pain they’ve suffered in trying to track down, say, Friedrich Durrenmatt’s 1956 play “The Visit” at the last minute for a make-or-break semester project that his child forget to mention, and suddenly $399 seems a small price to pay for handy access to any book ever written. In frantic situations like these, $399 can crazily seem like a small price to pay for the book itself.
I think this direction is mostly right… at least a start in the right direction.