When it comes to buying textbooks, the students look for the best prices around the market. Right now, a used text book costs less than any Kindle textbooks. If students don’t get any advantages of buying a textbook on the Kindle, why should they? As a comparison to Kindle, its rival ebook reader, the Nook, has much more competitive prices for textbooks. It is quite an understandable fact that a digital version of the text book should at least be less costly than its hard copy edition, but unfortunately, for Kindle, things are the other way around.
One of the other major reasons regarding Kindle textbooks is that there is not much book availability on the Kindle store. Anyone looking to buy advanced studying books on the Kindle will have a lot of trouble. The reason why many textbooks are still unavailable on the Kindle is because Amazon seems to be not bothering to get in touch with publishers of these textbooks. Unless and until Kindle signs a deal with publishers to release hard to find textbooks, the device is pretty much useless to not only students, but professors too.
One more very big problem with Kindle textbooks is its resale value. For Kindle, the pricing contract does not allow the users to sell their books. As a tradition, students have been selling their used textbooks through years and years to get back the money they spent on the books. With Kindle, this is not possible. The screen size of Kindle is also a bit too less for textbooks. Students need to read a lot in order to research for their respective subjects. Constantly flipping pages on the Kindle can get extremely irritating and can quickly result in less interest from a student.
The final problem with the Kindle textbooks brings us back to the costs. The textbooks on Kindle are not only hard to find, but also not competitively priced. This becomes a further problem for student when you bring in the total price of the Kindle itself. No one is willing to spend so much cash on a device that lacks the support for textbooks. Students would be happy to purchase the device if its books were less expensive and the device itself was a bit cheaper. Kindle at its current state is not a good product for textbooks.