wraggster
January 17th, 2012, 23:42
Apple is expected to announce e-book creation and social interaction tools (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/01/apple-to-announce-tools-platform-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing.ars) at their January 19 media event taking place in New York, the heart of the publishing industry. Along with expanded interactivity features such as test-taking, the event is expected to showcase an ePub 3-compatible 'Garageband for e-books' to address the lack of simple digital publishing tools. Steve Jobs reportedly considered textbook publishing to be 'an $8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction' and was directly involved with Apple's efforts in this area until his death.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/2128255/apple-intends-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/2128255/apple-intends-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing