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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Sure it is. It discourages other vendors from entering the market.
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And what discouraged them *before* Apple got in, pray tell?
If it takes Apple sticking their grubby hands into the market to get integrated solutions at reasonable prices into the K-12 market, so be it.
As for why the textbook publishers would agree to that price:
One: we don't know what the school districts pay per (reusable) textbook, but odds are the pricing is per student, per year.
Two: Open Textbook Initiative. A lot of US States are looking to save money by either writing or commisioning their own tailored textbooks and building their own cross-district, cross-state alliances to share the work and cost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califor...xtbook_Project
iBook author might help those efforts along, unless the publishers can preempt them.
They may yet regret getting into bed with Apple. Again.
But Charlie Brown is always full of hope.
