Justice Department settlement puts on-campus Kindle use on hold

Courtesy Engadget  Wed, 01/13/2010 - 19:51

Amazon may have recently announced it was beefing up the Kindle's functionality for vision-impaired users, but it looks like that's too little too late for three universities using Kindles as an alternative to textbooks, who have now agreed to shelve the e-readers until such enhancements are in place as part of a settlement with the Justice Department.

Those universities include Pace, Case Western, and Reed College, who were all sued by two organizations representing the blind, which...


 

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