Educational Kindling

It's back to school season, and Amazon wants the Kindle to become standard equipment for the returning student. They're developing a new version of the e-reader for schools as a cost-effective replacement for textbooks.

Amazon is considering entering the student textbook market with a new version of its Kindle e-book reader, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks, but so far there’s not an attractive enough e-book reader, and Amazon aims to fill that void. The college-oriented new model might be larger and include student-friendly features, such as allowing making annotations, according to a technology blog.