Thousands of textbooks, including books from Cengage, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill, Worth, and Wiley are already available on the iPhone. The screen's a bit small, but the convenience factor is huge, and the books rent for 6 months for 1/2 the price of a paper copy. Check out a video here.
CourseSmart seems to be getting ready for the Apple Tablet. This could be very interesting, as soon as Fall 2010. Check out the video here.
It turns out that CourseSmart downloads the pages as you look at them, rather than in advance (like the Kindle). This is almost OK with Wi-Fi access, but over the cell network it's very slow: 5 to 10 seconds to turn the page. Ugh.
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