Finally. I imagine other large districts have already done the same, but Amazon just secured a $30 million deal to provide textbooks in digital format to NYC schools.
The new deal won’t include Amazon devices, but the company will create a platform specifically for the district to purchase the textbooks and use on the devices the district already has.
When I was in school I never carried around my textbooks. Because there were too many and they were much too heavy to lug around all day. This makes perfect sense to me. And it’ll save plenty of trees in the process. Win-win.
What do you think of Amazon and the NYC schools reaching this agreement?
Johnny Reads 
I hope that Amazon is cutting them a deal. Hardcopy textbooks are unreasonably expensive. If they are spending a much smaller amount on the digital format, I’m all for it.
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