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There is nothing TO rebut my points. One doesn't need to read external websites to realize that ALL the options for creating text books that existed before the iBooks Author app was released....STILL EXIST!
Apple limits the commercial use of the iBooks Author app to only creating...well...iBooks (hence the name). So what? All the tools that exist to create text books for kindles still exist...so use them. Those same tools still exist for creating text books you can sell in the iBooks store....so use them if you'd like.
You can still code applications instead of using the nice iBooks Author...if you want to. No need for an external source to realize this.
Of course...no app written for the iPad works on anything else...again, self evident. In the same way that Adobe had to write Photoshop for Windows....and then AGAIN for the Mac (or vice versa).
The only thing that has changed...is that folks desiring to target the iPad, have a wonderful new tool...that is FREE...that allows them to create commercial text books with a lot of amazing interactive features...WITHOUT...having to be a programmer.
If you want to create amazing interactive textbooks target to Nooks or the Kindle Fire or the Xoom...or Windows, or the Mac.....well....what's stopping you? The existence of the iBooks Author app hasn't changed your options for creating interactive text books on those platforms.
Will schools actually buy into this? Who knows. But Apple is giving a powerful and easy tool to ENCOURAGE the creation of textbooks that work on the iPad. It's Apple's way of competing for the school's business.
Lee
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