I’ll tell you where I’d love to go with the iPad. College textbooks. Students are plunking down $800 to $2000 a semester for textbooks. A college trig textbook can run close to $200. Imagine putting together a company that could sell books for generic 1st and 2nd year college course and selling them through iBooks for $40 instead of the $200 many companies are demanding.
There was lots of talk about textbooks on the iPad back in janurary. I think they’re going to get there. If they’re available through the condole on amazon then you can get them now as there is a kindle app for the pad.
I don’t think it will fly.
But not because it isn’t a good idea, it is a great and brilliant idea.
The problem is, school textbooks are a major scam. Major.
They won’t give that up. But I know for sure...textbooks will be a killer application for me if one can bookmark and annotate with comments.