This is not a failure for Kindle; it's a learning experience, mostly. "As many as 80 percent of MBA students who participated in Amazon's pilot program said they would not recommend the Kindle DX as a classroom study aid." Why? "You have to flip back and forth between pages, and the Kindle is too slow for that. Also, the bookmarking function is buggy." That's nothing Kindle can't fix. There's more discussion on the Slashdot thread, where contributors also note that there are no used textbooks on Kindle, because of DRM, making them actually much more expensive for students, because they can't resell them once they're done with them. That's something Kindle isn't very likely to fix.
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