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PW covers children's ebooks

An article in today's PW looks at the children's book landscape, in particular the hurdles of ebooks for kids:

Despite the promise of e-books, a number of challenges remain. In terms of the school market, limited budgets are problematic, as is the issue of whether students would be able to take e-books home to read, or even how they would do so. Many parts of the country are still without Internet access, and many more children have access to cellphones than computers.

On the consumer side, there's that sticky issue of how to pay. It's all well and good for adults to download digital books, which are then charged to their credit cards, but what about kids? Possibly online retailers will borrow AudibleKids' model, which enables parents to provide an electronic allowance that determines how much a child can spend.

 

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