Continuing our ongoing commentary on the revolutionary transformation of the school text book industry (see prior post, and August 2009 issue of the HS Dent Forecast), we saw a headline in today’s Wall Street Journal that is worth mentioning: “Textbooks Offered for iPod, iPhones“

The Journal writes, “A provider of subscription e-textbooks for college students is making its 7,000-plus titles accessible on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod Touch as interest heats up in the digital-textbook arena….  The move comes as Amazon.com Inc. is shipping its $489 large-screen Kindle DX e-reader, which is aimed in part at college students. Amazon is overseeing a DX pilot program at seven colleges this fall involving hundreds of students who will experiment with reading textbooks digitally.” Read the rest of this entry »