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August 25, 2008, 11:18 AM ET

Amazon Plans to Market Its E-Book Reader to Colleges

Amazon is considering entering the student textbook market with a new version of its Kindle e-book reader, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks, but so far there’s not an attractive enough e-book reader, and Amazon aims to fill that void. The college-oriented new model might be larger and include student-friendly features, such as allowing making annotations, according to a technology blog.

Amazon officers also said the high Kindle sales estimates calculated by TechCrunch—a popular blog on internet products and companies—are not accurate. But the electronic company refuses to make public how many e-book reader units it has sold since Kindle was launched last November.—Maria José Viñas

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