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Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX

Jeff Bezos and Company unveil the much hyped Kindle DX, an e-book with a 9.7-inch screen designed to raise a ruckus in the textbook market, but deliver a $489 curve ball that seriously alters the ROI calculation for academia.

  • The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

    Andrew Nusca: Until Amazon reproduces the Kindle experience in a more complete fashion and makes reading as inexpensive a habit as it currently is, it will remain out of reach for most consumers and out of touch with most publishers.

  • Will the new Kindle DX boost plagiarism?

    Matthew Miller: One aspect of the new Kindle is the new easy accessibility to textbook content that makes copying and pasting original content a simple process.

  • Forget Kindle DX. How about the ZuneBook?

    Jason Perlow: T he ZuneBook will be a Microsoft tablet device which may include portable HD media playing, advanced touchscreen human interfaces based on a scaled-down, consumer version of “Surface.” It’s nice to dream.

  • Live from New York: It's Kindle DX

    Andrew Nusca: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos says his company's new and bigger Kindle DX ebook reader will make significant savings on paper; distance us from "evil" ink cartridges; provide cheaper, easier-to-use textbooks for students; and help the newspaper industry.

  • Kindle DX vs. iPod Touch

    Sam Diaz: Kindle DX at $489? For an ereader, that's not even in color. And doesn't come with Wi-Fi or games or apps or music playback or ...

  • Bigger Kindle has all sorts of vertical potential

    Heather Clancy: I believe Amazon has a huge potential following in the business world with the Kindle DX. You could call it the ultimate specialized thin client.

  • Kindle's new target? Textbooks

    Larry Dignan: While many think it could be a savior to the newspaper industry, there are bigger bucks to be made in textbooks. And we know Amazon won't want to miss any opportunities.

  • Mr. Bezos, tear down this wall

    Jason Perlow: It's time to show Amazon that those of us who seek e-book readers without boundaries will not stand for their market monopolization and Soviet-style platform containment.

    Dana Blankenhorn: All ebook readers must tear down this wall

  • Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooks

    Christopher Dawson: Every college student on the planet carries a laptop. There’s always a BlackBerry or iPod Touch. And Netbooks are now making laptop computing in huge numbers at nominal prices. Can anyone find a way to justify adding another device?

  • A bag full of books, or kilobytes of Kindle?

    Zack Whittaker: Students are arrogant, self-obsessed, radical, and intelligent beings. But lugging a Kindle around campus puts the “image” of the quintessential, smug student at serious risk.

  • No device will save The New York Times

    Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Just because a news publication first existed on a large sheet of paper doesn’t mean that some kind of flat, rollup or foldable screen of some sort of the same size will ensure its future.

  • Amazon's Kindle enters the paperless office fray?

    Heather Clancy: The business world might consider paying closer to attention to potential roles that the Kindle might play for their own companies.

  • Amazon forum: 70 percent of Kindle owners over 40

    Andrew Nusca: Since Amazon won’t release the ages of Kindle owners, a poster calculated the ages of a thread of posters. Does the price tag make a difference?

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