purchasing books for Kindle

[Joanna Arkans]

Hello,

I am looking for some creative suggestions for purchasing eBooks for kindles.  Our district just purchased three to pilot in the high school, but now the business office director is concerned about how books would be purchased for the device and has threatened to return them.  He does not want me having access to the corporate Amazon account. 

Any ideas or descriptions of what you do would be welcomed.

Joanna Arkans

[Will DeLamater]

Joanna, look for posts from Kathy Parker and Kathy Burnette for help with this issue. You can search using the box at the upper right. There has been lots of discussion of this topic over the last few months!

[Joanna Arkans]

Will, I've been searching both names and can't seem to find posts related to how ebooks are purchased for the kindle.  Any particular posts you remember that I can search for?

Will DeLamater said:

Joanna, look for posts from Kathy Parker and Kathy Burnette for help with this issue. You can search using the box at the upper right. There has been lots of discussion of this topic over the last few months!

[Marsha Middleton]

I think Amazon needs to come up with a better system, but for now, we are purchasing gift cards from Amazon and using them to purchase the books.  We had difficulty getting this set up and working smoothly because Amazon wants a credit card to be associated with a Kindle.  What we don't understand is why we can't use the library's corporate account.  We used the corporate account to purchase the Kindles, but couldn't use it to buy the books.  After we register the Kindles and put books on them, we deregister them so that students can't put books on them.

[John Landon]

Joanna,

I am looking into piloting Kindles in my school district as well. I spoke with Kathy Parker in Illinois this morning. She said that her school district has a corporate account and that their district had committed to funding Kindles prior to purchasing them. You might try pleading with your district for access to their corporate account... thereby overriding your school's business director.

Another option... have your school purchase "Gift Cards" from Amazon. Set up your own "Library" or "Media" account, and access books that way.

Finally... if all else fails, attend your school's PTA/PTO meeting and get them to help out (either by setting up a PTA/PTO funded account, or by donating Amazon Gift cards).

Either way, eventually when your district sees the potential benefit, they will ease up and support your efforts.

Good luck. I'm in the same boat. I'm receiving an award this Monday night at our School District's monthly board meeting and I hope to have the opportunity to discuss this issue that evening.

 

John

[Joanna Arkans]

Thanks John.  Good luck to you as well!  My district does have a corporate account, they just don't want me involved with using it.  Basically I need to figure out a way to purchase books that doesn't involve having someone there do each purchase.  I'm going to propose the gift card idea.  We'll see.

John Landon said:

Joanna,

I am looking into piloting Kindles in my school district as well. I spoke with Kathy Parker in Illinois this morning. She said that her school district has a corporate account and that their district had committed to funding Kindles prior to purchasing them. You might try pleading with your district for access to their corporate account... thereby overriding your school's business director.

Another option... have your school purchase "Gift Cards" from Amazon. Set up your own "Library" or "Media" account, and access books that way.

Finally... if all else fails, attend your school's PTA/PTO meeting and get them to help out (either by setting up a PTA/PTO funded account, or by donating Amazon Gift cards).

Either way, eventually when your district sees the potential benefit, they will ease up and support your efforts.

Good luck. I'm in the same boat. I'm receiving an award this Monday night at our School District's monthly board meeting and I hope to have the opportunity to discuss this issue that evening.

 

John