Thursday, September 25, 2008

College bookstores selling eTextbooks

Soon students will be able to buy electronic textbooks at the college bookstore, using kiosks that will download files and burn them to CDs. The kiosks will also offer the latest Hollywood movies, which the machines will be able to burn onto DVDs on demand.

The National Association of College Stores announced that it has formed a spinoff company, NACS Media Solutions, to broker the deals with publishers to support the new on-demand service.

Movies will be the first product offered at the kiosks, which are scheduled to appear at seven stores next month. The plan is to add digital textbooks to the kiosks starting next summer, says Charles Schmidt, a spokesman for the association.

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