of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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There is one HUGE problem here that no one has addressed: TEXTBOOKS DON'T FIT ON THE SCREEN! I have a SONY reader which has the same sized screen. Put a book with heavy pictures, diagrams, drawings, etc on the Reader and forget about being able to read or look at anything. JUST TOO TINY. You can completely cover the screen with your hand. Now take your big textbooks and reduce its page size to that small and make it a dark grey on a light grey background. NO WAY to read the damn thing.
Before textbooks can get onto an e-book (unless they are JUST text), they need to make a e-book reader at least 8.5 by 11 size at the minimum. Then there is the issue of color...