Mumbai's SP Jain Institute of Management and Research has partnered with Amazon India to move MBA textbooks to Kindle e-readers, with each participant given a Kindle with e-copies of books and other reading material. According to a note from Amazon, over 50% of the textbooks for the new batch of Post Graduate Diploma in Management, are available on the Kindle, apart from case studies from Harvard Business Publishing and other reading material. Amazon has partnered with Pearson India and Harvard Business School Publishing for this. Amazon's pitch here is that the Kindle and the textbooks will remain with the students after they graduate, but the fact of the matter is that content on Kindle isn't going to be owned by the students: it will only be licensed to them. You don't "buy" books from the Kindle Store, you borrow them.…
