Educational Technology

January 17, 2012

Apple to enter the digital textbook fray?

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

By Dennis Carter, eSchool News

Technology giant causes stir with promising an ‘education announcement’ that experts believe could be related to eBooks. Apple’s invitation created an instant stir on social media sites. Education-technology advocates took notice when the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the textbook industry “ripe for destruction” in his official biography. On Jan. 19, school technologists might just see what Jobs had in mind. A flurry of speculation about Apple’s entry into the digital textbook market swept across Twitter, Facebook, and technology blogs after Apple released an invitation touting an “education announcement at the Big Apple” Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/01/12/apple-to-enter-the-digital-textbook-fray/

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