Comment EReader and textbooks (Score 1) 348
Something that was pointed out to me by my wife who's in Educational publishing... the one technical thing that's kept textbooks off of ereaders like the kindle and nook is the lack of color - textbooks need to have a full depth of color for the illustrations. The admission by McGraw-Hill seems to point in this direction..
Now the publishers want to keep dead trees in circulation for monetary reasons aside, I wonder how this'll catch on - I have an ereader, and the eink is fantastic for reading.. a OLED or LCD panel is just going to make it VERY hard to spend hours buried in the book for studying, I would think.