Text Books For Everyone!

Amazon Kindle has recently launched a program that allows students to “borrow” digital text books, mark them up with highlights, and save the notes for future use (even after the rental period has ended). TechCrunch has a cursory write-up of the new product:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/amazon-launches-kindle-textbook-rental-service-allows-students-to-store-notes-in-the-cloud/

There are a number of very interesting things in this offering. First, is that it’s not the first. Companies rentin...