UW-Milwaukee Experiments with Kindle

Link to September 21 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article, "UW students hitting the e-books in trial".

A very limited trial.

Excerpt: Instead of lugging around hundreds of dollars in books in strained backpacks, 20 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have little more than a pound to keep with them this fall for one class.

They are part of the university's $10,000 pilot program introducing online retailer Amazon.com's electronic reader gadget, the Kindle.

The Kindle has students eager to save money and the environment but publishers on their heels as the $25 billion book market stands on the verge of a technological shake-up.

History professor Jeremi Suri joined the project funded by UW's library to examine the possibility of eliminating paper, saving money and increasing collaborative learning.

"We thought of how we could take the wisdom of the ages and apply it to the crazy world we live in today," Suri said of his history seminar that is the first to try out the gizmo this fall at UW.