More details are emerging about the University of Washington's plans to test Amazon's new large-screen Kindle DX. About 90 students beginning the UW's Technology Management MBA program in January 2010 will be using the Kindle DX in place of traditional printed textbooks and course materials during the first two quarters of the program. That's on top of approximately 60 incoming computer science grad students who will be getting Kindles in the fall.

The technology management MBA courses that will be delivered on Kindle DX include accounting, microeconomics, statistics, corporate financial strategy, global management, and domestic and global economic conditions. Program director Tracy Gojdics wrote via e-mail:

We have experienced greater demand for digital delivery from our students in the past couple of years, especially as there have been advances in technology, such as the Kindle DX, that make this possible. Additionally, the program is largely comprised of software engineers, developers and technology enthusiasts that are naturally early adopters to technology tools, applications and devices.

Gojdics said Amazon will be providing a portion of the Kindle DX units and the program will be purchasing a portion (the DX retails for $489). She said the student program fee that would normally go toward textbooks and course materials will be diverted to the Kindle DX pilot.

The University of Washington, despite being in Amazon's back yard, wasn't on the initial list of universities taking part in the Kindle DX pilot. But UW quickly scrambled for a place in the lineup.

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