Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing

I’m sort of amazed that traditional textbook companies, with decades of a head start in this arena, have been so slow to adopt digital and interactive textbook development. From Ars Technica:

Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the “GarageBand for e-books,” so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users.

The fact that today’s science (and all students, really) are still primarily staring at drawings on paper while in school and completely immersive digital environments pretty much all the rest of the time is absurd. If you have stock in tree publishers, I’d sell it today, before Apple’s announcement tomorrow.

Also, digital education revolutionaries, please hire me when I finish my PhD this year.

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  1. mokak reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    Hurry up and get to it - my 30 lb bag is ruining my posture.
  2. americanindianhighered reblogged this from questionall
  3. deathmasskdivine reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    “Apple is slated to announce the fruits...its labor on improving the use
  4. gennasside reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  5. stoplookinginmyfishtank said: what happens to the students who learn best from a book? I am a senior biology major and am grateful for books because computer screens hurt my head/eyes and books do not.
  6. 256colorsss reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  7. alternativehighbrow reblogged this from chrisaumen and added:
    This is long overdue in the education.
  8. bigbangboutique reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    yayayaya FINALLY. I hope they’re cheaper, too.
  9. ahugehypocrite reblogged this from gradmom and added:
    I’m currently an undergraduate studying the sciences and I prefer textbooks over digital sources still. I think that...
  10. linewerk reblogged this from gradmom
  11. hippiedad reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  12. gradmom reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    I’m interested to see what they’ve created. So many professors are moving away from textbooks and compiling their own...
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  14. geeklikeme reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    My worry is that these textbooks are going to still be $100+ each, yet copy-protected to hell and back, preventing any...
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