• Amazon Now Allows Schools to Buy Apps in Bulk (for tablets) with Whispercast

    by  • March 20, 2013 • Tech • 0 Comments

    I AM THE GOD OF HELL TABLETS! AND I BRING YOU...

    Amazon launched its Whispercast for Kindle tablets a few months ago and this new program allows schools to deliver ebooks and content to an entire fleet of tablets. This is very useful for IT staff that need to deliver a specific ebook or e-textbook to a whole class of students. The Kindle Fire got an upgrade today that will allow schools to make bulk purchases of apps and have them automatically install on as many tablets as needed.

    This does seem to imply that older devices like the Kindle 3 will not (or at least for now do not) have this feature.

    Read the full article @ GoodReader.com.

    About

    Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Nebraska and has been training librarians in technology for more than 15 years. He has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael’s eleventh book, Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians was published May 2012 and has two more books on the way. He has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs Web sites for authors and historical societies, takes many, many photos, and reads more than 100 books a year.

    http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/

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