01-20-2012, 06:35 PM | #46 |
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There are plenty of educational facilities other than the US ones that could see a use for this as well. Not everyone thinks the world stops at the US border.
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01-20-2012, 07:06 PM | #47 |
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I presume you all have also read this little nugget (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/20/apple_ibooks/), which talks about an interesting wrinkle in the EULA if you use iBooks Author.
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01-20-2012, 10:30 PM | #48 |
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01-20-2012, 10:52 PM | #49 | |
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01-21-2012, 12:17 AM | #50 | |
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The program only works on a Mac and designed to be read on only Apple products using iBooks 2. Why would I think otherwise. At present you can't publish on iBooks without a Macintosh. So for publishers selling through iBooks already it's a winner because it should reduce production time and provide enhanced features for the target audience I am already aiming at. For Amazon, B&N, Sony, Google and Nook it business as usual. ePubs and Mobis. |
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01-21-2012, 07:41 AM | #51 |
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Probably a win for those few that actually use iBookstore. It'll probably go over like a lead ballon for the rest of the world.
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01-21-2012, 08:25 AM | #52 |
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01-21-2012, 10:54 AM | #53 | |
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01-21-2012, 01:10 PM | #54 |
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Tablet computers being used by students for reading, writing, submitting homework, research, etc. is a no-brainer. It is inevitable. No reason for Amazon not to have a share of that.
The big news in this for me is that Amazon has got some major textbook publishers to commit to re-designing their textbooks as tablet apps rather than print books. Up until now, the conventional wisdom has been that e-readers are most suitable for reading novels: all text, all the time, from start to finish. Text books, among other p-applications, have not been seen as a good "fit:" they have charts, graphics, and pictures to go with that text, and you might jump around within the text, constantly going back to this table or that glossary or some answer key. So, kudos to Amazon for using its clout to nudge the big publishers in the inevitable direction. It's past time, I say. By the same token, I'm puzzled by those who poo-poo new standards with all their bells and whistles: embedded videos, mp3's, animated graphics, whatever. In the future, I take it for granted that people will carry tablets or slates for school, work, leisure, etc., and among other things they'll be reading novels on those devices with little or no eyestrain. Between now and then, there will be some heavy-handed, awkward, misguided, mistimed, mispriced, whatever developments and diversions getting from where we are now to where we will be then. But there are profits for whomever can grab market share now if they can hold on to some of that for later. I've seen schools now that issue computers or Kindles to their students, but there's no 500-pound gorilla of educational computing. If Apple gets a jump on tablets for educational use, that's something. |
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01-21-2012, 01:59 PM | #56 |
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Yeah, I meant Apple, but anyone capable would work just as well.
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01-21-2012, 04:57 PM | #57 |
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The content that can be created with this software can only be used with iOS devices and may only be sold via Apple. Publishers and educational institutions would be insane to sign up for such a scheme, shoveling revenue towards Apple for no identifiable reason. Any public school or university signing up for this should get a visit from the public accounting office asap.
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01-21-2012, 06:17 PM | #58 | |
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01-21-2012, 06:29 PM | #59 | |
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I mean, I'm a little skeptical that technology will help much with education - but getting righteously indignant over this program when no one else has done anything like it seems misplaced. Would students be better off if Apple did nothing? I don't think so. |
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01-21-2012, 06:31 PM | #60 | |
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On the other hand, Apple has been one of the "better" ones for putting technology into classrooms and finding "educational" uses for it. As a kid, I can remember the old Apples for the Students program- much as my mom didn't approve of it- and seeing vast labs of Apple IIe and //c computers. MS didn't get that focus until recently, when it started getting schools to offer MS Office 07 in business classes. |
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