K-textbooks from Princeton: This Side of Paradise territory
"Princeton follows Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley in creating textbooks for the Kindle. In the United States, there are about 2,500 four-year universities, so Amazon still has a long way to go." - CNET.
The TeleRead take: So do E Ink and the Kindle. The K-machine can’t display color or offer high contrast, and the screen size is too small for detailed illustrations. Still, this is progress. Meanwhile perhaps freshmen can get in the mood with a copy of This Side of Paradise, from the Kindle Store (99 cents), Feedbooks.com (free) or Manybooks.net (free). TSOP is the Princeton novel.
Related: Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo Buzz on those boring textbooks—and Wikipedia on Princeton and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Incidentally, young writers can take comfortable in the fact that even Fitzgerald’s first novel rates only four out of five stars from Amazon customers. Wait. I’d agree with the verdict. "It’s not his most complete or mature work by a wide margin, but it matters not. This is still a great book, especially for young people or those still a kid at heart." Exactly—despite the sap and other flaws in TSOP!
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