Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:57AM from the just-destroy-the-price dept.

bonch writes "Apple is expected to announce e-book creation and social interaction tools 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."

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Re:Magic by siddesu · 2012-01-17 12:56 · Score: 0, Redundant

No, I don't remember ever having to pay to get pictures off my phone, and my "walled garden" phones have had "app" markets and "music" markets since about 2000 for prices that were comparable to the iTunes and the Android markets. The only "new" thing I've seen since the advent of the iPhone and the Android is video download, and that is mostly a development due to tech that developed independently of smartphones.