Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution
Required reading for everyone who's high on Apple's iBooks KoolAid from an excellent blog HackEducation. Here's just one quote:
"See, you can't really say that you're going to "change everything" when it comes to textbooks and announce that your partners are the 3 companies who already control 90% of the textbook market."
"See, you can't really say that you're going to "change everything" when it comes to textbooks and announce that your partners are the 3 companies who already control 90% of the textbook market."
What does iBooks mean for the eBook/eTextbook industry?
More thinking on Apple's announcement. Summary from ZDNet:
"The eTextbook industry got a big publicity and market education boost last week with Apple’s announcements. What it didn’t get was the market revolution it could have."
"The eTextbook industry got a big publicity and market education boost last week with Apple’s announcements. What it didn’t get was the market revolution it could have."
Textbook of the future? Not until we figure out distribution, DRM, and ecosystem
Sober thinking on the recent etextbooks hype. Summary from ZDNet: "Hardware is only a tiny part of the problem we need to solve to get
educational resources into kids’ hands (both literally and figuratively)
at scale."
Good explication on strengths and weaknesses of print vs electronic; and details of current etextbook choices, including the major publishers and various tablet efforts (even though title says "academic digital monograms", presentation applies to HS, not just college-level)
List and some details on all major current etextbook players.
