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"Another market where eBooks have a lot of potential is education. It too is at an early stage, but there are many benefits to students accessing their text books electronically. Shared highlights, margin notes, search - to name a few. Surprisingly though, it's not iPad and eReaders that are driving the eTextbook market - but PCs and netbooks. The iPhone and Android are making some in-roads, however. "

"This past fall fully 90 percent percent of the CIOs who participated in the annual Campus Computing Survey agreed that "eBook content will be an important source for instructional resources in five years," up from 76 percent in fall 2009. Campus IT leaders were also bullish, if slightly less so, on the rising role of eReaders as a "platform for instructional content" (82 percent agreed in fall 2011, compared to 66 percent in 2009)."

""There is no e-reader that supports what we found these students doing," said first author Alex Thayer, a UW doctoral student in Human Centered Design and Engineering. "It remains to be seen how to design one. Its a great space to get into, theres a lot of opportunity.""

Useful observations. Good to see Maryanne Wolf cited.

Bowdoin makes available Kindles (since 2009)