{"id":1181,"date":"2007-11-26T03:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/will-the-kindle\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:12:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:12:04","slug":"will-the-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/will-the-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Kindle Change the World of Textbooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=7781819\">Is Kindle the book<\/a> that changes the world of textbooks in a dramatic way?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/alfredth\/archive\/2007\/11\/20\/will-the-kindle-change-the-world-of-textbooks.aspx\">Computer Science Teacher &#8211; Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Will the Kindle Change the World of Textbooks<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>First, the price!&#160; It&#8217;s as expensive as a mobile phone with out the connection discounts, and almost as expensive as a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>I already have the capacity to read books &#8212; on my Pocket PC phone, and I keep several on my storage card for doctor&#8217;s visits and other places where I have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>I even have the capacity to download books wirelessly.&#160; Again, Pocket PC phone.&#160; Ereader if you care.<\/p>\n<p>I am disappointed that Amazon did away with their original book service (I had downloaded a book from them and it wasn&#8217;t bad).<\/p>\n<p>However, I like Ereader much better.<\/p>\n<p>Besides I can also read the books on my PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope not. Is Kindle the book that changes the world of textbooks in a dramatic way? Computer Science Teacher &#8211; Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : Will the Kindle Change the World of Textbooks First, the price!&#160; It&#8217;s as expensive as a mobile phone with out the connection discounts, and almost as expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}