A world of kind(l)er possibilities

Yesterday, I had an idea when thinking about the Amazon Kindle. Now, several people have bought the kindles and that means that have to buy the ebooks along with it. Say,  have 100 paper books in my library, what will happen to those books? If I want them on my kindle, I need to buy these 100 books (100 * 10 dollars = 1000 dollars). I have an idea:

1. What if the publishers decide to give away the electronic version of a book in exchage of the paper version?

-The way it would work is, that publisher announces that everybody who has a copy of some book can ship the book back and in turn receive a kindle ebook. They can charge a nominal fee like 2-3 dollars for this service, which is much less than the actual Kindle book price.

2. The paper books that are returned can be donated to organizations like to Room to read who help the children in developing countries by building schools and libraries.

-This would generate a bonus money for the publishing company to justify doing this. Also, it would help millions of children and adults in developing countries an access to knowledge.

I guess there are a lot publishing policies issue that might prevent this from happening. I guess this is more of bureaucratic nature than anything else. If this would happen, the world would be kind(l)er.

Like it…? Spread the word around