SanDisk has finally taken their BookLocker product to market, under the name ‘FlashCP.’ The system allows students to receive copies of their textbooks on USB flash drives, in the hopes that kids will be able to haul around a laptop and a FlashCP instead of a bag full of books. It’s an admirable goal, but it also happens to be DRM’d to high heaven, which means each textbook publisher will have to work with SanDisk to certify their books.
One practical problem? Textbooks are so expensive already—will people want to pay $100+ for some data?
SanDisk Introduces FlashCP [MobileBurn]
