{"id":21389,"date":"2011-07-20T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=21389"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:07:43","slug":"what-the-kindle-textbook-rental-program-portends-for-higher-education-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/07\/20\/what-the-kindle-textbook-rental-program-portends-for-higher-education-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Kindle textbook rental program portends for higher education [Reynolds]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xplana.com\/2011\/07\/what-the-kindle-textbook-rental-program-portends-for-higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What the Kindle textbook rental program portends for higher education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from xplana.com by Rob Reynolds<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Almost as soon as <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20110718\/amazon-tries-taking-the-kindle-to-school-again-with-textbook-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">the press release<\/a> hit the Internet yesterday, I began fielding questions about Amazon\u2019s new Kindle textbook rental program. What does this mean for publishers? How will this affect textbook prices? What impact will it have on institutions and their students?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While the general answer to all of these questions is \u201cWe don\u2019t know yet,\u201d there are a number of projections I think we can make based on current market trends. Before launching into those projections, however, let\u2019s take a quick look at what the Kindle textbook rental program actually offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Kindle textbook rental program portends for higher education &#8212; from xplana.com by Rob Reynolds Excerpt: Almost as soon as the press release hit the Internet yesterday, I began fielding questions about Amazon\u2019s new Kindle textbook rental program. What does this mean for publishers? How will this affect textbook prices? What impact will it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,286,275,143,501,304,37,3,239,140,206,367],"tags":[710,704,641,762,799,719,587,566,251,240,640,748,643,676,747],"class_list":["post-21389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changing-business-models","category-digital-learning","category-digital-textbooks","category-disruption","category-e-publishing-related-items-epub-and-more","category-e-readers","category-future","category-higher-education","category-new-business-models","category-publishing","category-trends","category-vendors","tag-digital-learning","tag-digital-textbooks","tag-disruption","tag-e-books","tag-e-publishing-related-items-epub-and-more","tag-e-readers","tag-future","tag-higher-education","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-publishing","tag-tablets","tag-textbooks","tag-trends","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21397,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions\/21397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}