http://www.blackplasticglasses.com Musings on Publishing and life in the Digital Age by Evan Schnittman Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:07:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/19/kindle-iphone-textbooks/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/19/kindle-iphone-textbooks/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 09:13:03 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=209 To be perfectly clear, this blog is not sanctioned by, endorsed by, or even remotely associated with Oxford University Press, my fantastic employer. What I say here is my opinion and my opinion alone. The preview of the Kindle DX on May 6th was a smart tactical maneuver in the preparation for the next front of the ebook reader wars.  Even though Amazon invited the NY Times to the stage to help pump up the volume, newspapers are not the primary raison d’être of the new Kindle. The university or higher education market is the Holy Grail for the ebook reader market for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, it’s a huge, global, highly important market that has...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/19/kindle-iphone-textbooks/feed/ 1