Filed under: HandheldsAmazon’s Kindle ebook reader has been doing pretty well as a consumer device, but we’ve always thought it had amazing potential as a textbook reader — especially coupled iTunes-style with Amazon’s online distribution system. Apparently Princeton University (Jeff Bezos’s alma mater) agrees with us, because it’s just announced plans to publish Kindle version of its textbooks this fall, joining Yale, Oxford, and Berkeley in supporting the device. It’s not clear how many books are due to be published on the device or how content like photographs and full-color diagrams will be handled (what’s a bio book without red mitochondria? They’re the “powerhouse” of the cell!), but we’re certain students will gladly make the tradeoff to reduce their backpack loads just a little bit.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Inter-LATA Rates The term LATA is an acronym for Local Access Transport Area. A
LATA is a geographic region in which long distance phone calls are sent and received.
Many states may have more than one LATA. Rates for calls made between LATAs in the
same state are called inter-LATA rates. Such calls are also known as intrastate
or in-state calls.

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