Apple launches e-textbook tools with new iBooks. Another view *(:>*

[haikuman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16634097

Apple aims to drive the use of electronic textbooks in the classroom by making it easier for publishers to create interactive titles.

The company has announced a range of new tools and services which it claims will "reinvent the textbook".

Leading names in educational resources are involved, including the world's biggest, UK-based Pearson Publishing.

Apple will compete with existing offerings from Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook device.

Roger Rosner, Apple's vice president of productivity applications, demonstrated the books, some of which are now available to download, at an event in New York.

Also on display was iBooks Author, a free program that will allow educators and authors to make their own interactive books for the iPad.

[DaviDC.]

Looks pretty cool to me!

I have to wonder what the official text book industry take will be on this?
Are they going to cry & whine like the MPAA & RIAA that this marks the end of the world as they know it? This could definitely be a game-changer in the world of text book publishing.

[decocritter]

I think the textbook publishers will still get their money. The paper companies and bookbinders are the losers.