The newly formed NACS Media Solutions is launching a pilot program that will test digital vending kiosks at a number of major college campuses. The kiosks will be provided through a partnership with Polar Frog Digital. The Chronicle of Higher Education explains:
Starting this month, students will be given the choice of buying or renting DVD’s from the kiosks. Rental DVD’s will be encoded so that the quality of the images degrade after a set period of time — meaning that essentially they self-destruct after use. “It’s not exactly like Mission: Impossible where a little puff of smoke comes out,” jokes Mr. Schmidt.
Read the entire article here: College Bookstores to Begin Selling eTextbooks on Demand
An article from Ars Technica comments on the technology which makes renting burned DVDs possible:
The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes a spokesman as suggesting that the DRM technology for rentals won’t be software-based, but rather rely on the self-destructing DVD technology that’s already used for other rental schemes.
Read the entire article here: College bookstores turn to kiosks to stem e-textbook tide
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