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Lisa Spiro

Apple No Longer Claims to Own Your Content on iBooks - 0 views

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    "The new agreement makes it clear that Apple is only claiming sales exclusivity for the .ibooks format. If a user wants to tap iBooks Author to create a PDF version of an eBook, that PDF can be sold in any online bookstore, not just iBooks."
Lisa Spiro

Technology News: iPad: The iBooks Profitability Puzzle - 0 views

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    "Apple's new iBooks textbook market saw lots of activity over the weekend as users downloaded 350,000 copies of books, according to Global Equities Research. If iBooks catches on in a big way, it'll certainly be profitable to Apple. But whether it will be a good deal for authors and publishers has yet to be determined."
Lisa Spiro

Apple iBooks 2 license agreement gets icy reception in higher education | eCampus News - 0 views

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    "Advocates for open-license textbooks in higher education, while largely unhappy with Apple's new iBooks 2 platform, say the technology behemoth has done a favor for their movement: Apple's pricey, limiting approach to digital textbooks is in stark contrast to the textbook model that aims for low-cost or free college texts."
Lisa Spiro

OpenStax announces first iPad version of its free, online textbooks | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "OpenStax College, the nonprofit, open-access publisher out of Rice University, announced the launch of its first iBook text Monday, becoming the latest publisher to try to make the free-with-paid-options model sustainable. The interactive, iPad-based version of OpenStax's free-to-read online College Physics text is available through iTunes for $4.99."
Lisa Spiro

UC Berkeley researchers aim to revolutionize e-books - The Daily Californian - 0 views

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    "Hartnell and his team aim to harness a web-based platform, using the standardized Web language of HTML5, to create e-books as an alternative to private proprietary formats like Kindle and iBook."
Lisa Spiro

Apple Taking A Bite Out Of Textbook Costs (and more!) « The Saylor Foundation - 0 views

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    Saylor excitement over Apple announcement, since it provides an authoring environment for open textbooks. Still ome questions about licensing of books produced via iBook Author.
Lisa Spiro

Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Surveys recent etextbook initiatives, including the open source platform Flow and etextbook Cahcalot, Inkling, Apple's ibooks, Wikibooks
Lisa Spiro

Research & Instruction Services » Blog Archive » Incubation Update: e-book re... - 0 views

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    As a part of the RIS Incubation process, I've been evaluating a number of popular e-book readers to see how viable they might be for classroom and/or library use. The readers I examined are: Amazon Kindle Amazon Kindle DX Sony Reader 300 Sony Reader 600 (aka Sony Reader Touch) Barnes and Noble Nook Apple iPad running Apple's iBooks software, Amazon's Kindle software, and Barnes and Noble's Reader software.
Lisa Spiro

Jetpack by Purdue University - 0 views

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    Purdue's etextbook authoring platform, embed media, include annotations, HTML5
Lisa Spiro

Educators hope Apple's textbook foray will begin a "learning revolution" - 0 views

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    "Wheeler believes that Apple's announcements will be a shot in the arm for the kind of digital text programs he supports. "The economics of college textbooks are structurally flawed and are failing students, authors, professors and publishers," Wheeler told Ars. "Different approaches, including free resources and companies trying to restructure the industry-as Apple did for music-are in play.""
Lisa Spiro

Is Apple learning a lesson over the Steve Jobs dream: iPad textbooks? | The Drum - 1 views

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    "Apple's next big idea of digital textbooks in classrooms equipped with iPads has run into a snag: cost."
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    Yes indeed. Some of us pointed this out a while back (harrumph). Gotta love that Apple spokesperson's response.
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