Algebra, biology, geometry — these have never been particularly exciting words when it comes to textbooks, but that could change today. Apple’s attempt at reinventing learning is officially online and ready for download — with each title offered at only 15 bucks.
Giz AU note: As you can see in the screenshot above, we can’t actually see any textbooks in the AU iTunes store yet. It shouldn’t be too long before we see something though, since Apple has made the splash page available to us.
So far the iTunes selection includes the aforementioned titles, along with E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth (free!), Chemistry, Environmental Science and Physics.
Apple’s clearly starting with the fundamentals here, and publishing partners look to be limited to McGraw-Hill and Pearson. But this library should be fleshed out very fast, very soon. [iTunes]
Rhysnotreece
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:31 AMI am unsure if this is a good idea still. While I was at university some exams we were allowed to take in textbooks and notes, surely you will never be allowed to take an Ipad into an exam meaning you would still need to buy the text book.
typedmillepede
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:54 AMi don’t really see the difference. most students would be on wifi ipads, so just turn off wifi during exam times? it wouldn’t be too difficult to do.
haha
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 12:42 PMand give the rich kids the competitive advantage of fast searching through 1000page textbooks for specific content, while the poor kids have to rely on MEMORY and hours of post it note tabbed pages.
Yeh real fair
Johnno
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 12:58 PMI love it how anybody who can afford something you can’t is “rich”
Maybe they actually worked hard to afford it, and you’re just too lazy.