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Article looks at the ebooks business in Europe, where it is still in its infancy. Not many readers available, and very little content in other languages besides English. There are legal and economic issues for pricing and licensing of ebooks.

I was just going to add this here. I debated whether to cite it on one of my pages. They also mention the example of the music industry.

I'm surprised that this NYT story doesn't have any better reasons for why teenagers are a new surging market in ebook sales. My guess, which I posted on eCollege was that they're used to having tech gadgets in their hands and that maybe a book seems antiquated to them. But that's just my guess.

So far, it's mostly being used for students who fail courses, and retake it as "online credit recovery."

The Idaho example is crazy (in my opinion), and private corporations are increasingly trying to get K-12 education money. However, online classes can be appropriate at this level in some situations (e.g., languages).

How technology is being incorporated into education (and its costs).

A former colleague of mine passed this along to me today, and I thought it was interesting in light of our class's discussions on technological trends.

Good review of the issues with DRM in ebooks.

Ok, this is exciting, however, we don't know the details yet: "The company did not say how long the lending period for Kindle e-books would be, or if there were any restrictions on the number of checkouts for any books."

There is a lot of back and forth about this news in the library world. I have yet to give the Amazon annoncement the fine tooth comb treatment, but there are plenty of questions. Chief among them for me would be: What is a library's financial incentive to promote the Kindle (free or exceeding cheap content to loan would be a fine answer for me). Another issue has come up on public library list serves regarding Harper Collins' policies. It has come out that part of the agreement is that Harper Collins will have access to patron information. Although I have yet to see anyone explain the details of this aspect of Harper Collins' agrrement, would that be something Amazon would want as well?

Google says that phones need to know your location to provide services.

Robert Darnton, a university librarian at Harvard, tries to dispell some of the hype regarding the "Information Age".

Sherry Turkle is quoted in this article that discusses how young people especially increasingly quantify everything.

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