This article tells about the Kindle Fire's specs, storage, and textbook rentals. According to this article the Kindle Fire is a huge competitor to the iPad based on price, storage and textbook rentals. The author says that the Kindle Fire will pay for its self in the savings on textbooks. You also get cloud storage for free, and the operating system is based on Google's Android operating system.
I feel that the Kindle Fire is being marketed to college students not for k-12 students. I don't feel that the saving are as much as Amazon would want you to believe. They make it sound like you will save enough to cover the price the first semester and this is not true. However, any savings is great. As a future elementary teacher I can't see myself renting a book for my future class.
OK. I don't think renting is for everyone.
ReplyDeletePrice savings vary a great deal from one book to the next, so blanket statements are hard to make. For one textbook in one of my classes the paper copy costs $44.95, while the electronic copy is $12.95. If the price difference for all books was that great, then a full time student could save the price of a Kindle pretty quickly. On the other hand, though, another text used in another class I teach only discounts about 10%, or $4 for the electronic version. Who the publisher is matters a lot. :-)
Good job.