Amazon pilot program taps textbook niche with Kindle - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

Ken Frazier, the director of libraries at the University of Wisconsin, recently did something that might seem odd in this era of tight school budgets.

He spent $10,000 in university funds to buy 20 Kindles from Amazon.com. He’s testing the electronic readers as a textbook replacement in a pair of undergraduate and graduate history seminars...