Apple Pushes To Put Interactive Textbooks On iPads : NPR - 0 views
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Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware suitable to display them.
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Apple also released iBooks Author, a new tool meant to lure publishers into creating new content specifically for the iPad education user.
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even if an iPad were to last for five years in the hands of students, the e-books plus the iPad would cost more than the hardback textbooks.
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