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Sparknotes for iPod
If you've ever been a student, then you more likely than not are familiar with both Cliff Notes and Monarch Notes. If you're a tech savvy student, then you've probably come across SparkNotes in the past, as it's a valuable resource of free study guides for a plethora of different subjects and topics. Well, now, SparkNotes along with iPREPpress have released study guides formatted for your iPod. They currently have 11 study guides available: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey,The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, A Tale of Two Cities, The Catcher in the Rye, and Pride and Prejudice.Unfortunately, the formatting for the iPod will set you back $4.95 per guide, which seems a bit steep considering that you can buy entire TV shows for $1.99 these days. Nevertheless, I think this is great and a step in the right direction. Check it out.
[via iLounge]
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Reid Bode said 6:42PM on 10-26-2005
From a high school student (compared to my reading assignments):
To Kill a Mockingbird - already read it
The Odyssey - already read (part of) it
The Scarlet Letter - already read it
The Great Gatsby - not going to (I think)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - going to
Romeo & Juliet - already read it
Hamlet - going to
Lord of the Flies - going to
A Tale of Two Cities - not going to
The Catcher in the Rye - not going to
Pride and Prejudice - going to
Now if they'd release some for The Awakening, I could use them right now.
And maybe cheaper.
Hey, everyone in my school knows about Spark Notes. They're sort of the standard. People use Cliff notes, too, but who's heard of Monarch?
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C.K. Sample, III said 6:50PM on 10-26-2005
Hey Reid,
Monarch is popular on the college / graduate school level, as a lot of University libraries have them.
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Laurence Anderson said 4:08PM on 10-27-2005
Or just do what I did yesterday for a book I'm "reading" for English class, copy all the text you need, open TextEdit, paste, convert to .txt and put it in the notes folder of your iPod :sheesh:.
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cruss said 5:35PM on 10-27-2005
$4.95 may seem high compared to $1.99 for a tv show but I bet that the target market will see this as money well spent. Another example of value to a specific market vs value to the masses. The future is this kind of marketing. The costs of digital production are low enough that I don't have to make a "mass media" product that everyone will buy to make it worth my time to produce it in the first place. I just have to turn a profit. Smaller, more targeted media production is what the RIAA and MPAA fear and the real reason they don't want P2P to become main stream.
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Daniel David said 1:14PM on 10-28-2005
Perhaps you are forgetting that TV shows have ad revenue and are given away for FREE over the air waves. Books and guides on the other hand, do not have ad revenue (generally speaking) and are SOLD (pocket-bibles excluded).
$4.95 is a perfectly reasonable price!
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