Will The ACCC Join The Apple Ebook Stoush? 
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The ACCC has shown that it’s not unwilling to take on Apple when it feels Australian consumers are getting a raw deal. With the US Department Of Justice taking on Apple and numerous publishers over alleged collusive ebook pricing arrangements, will we see similar action here in Australia?
DRM is always something of a cat-and-mouse game; every time an exploit is made public, DRM rights holders will try to cover the loopholes. It looks as though Apple’s the latest to fall foul of DRM circumvention, with reports that the rights management around iBooks has been cracked.
Selling a book with Apple’s iBook Author program is now a one-way ticket to Apple being the only place you can sell the book. Maybe selling your book on iBooks isn’t such a great deal after all.
Is what Apple showed us today future of education? The future we’d all been imagining for decades, no less. Harry Potter stuff.
Apple’s iBook 2 app comes with some interesting media bundled in it. Developers have uncovered high-resolution images that seem designed for use in a Retina Display, but the iPad 2 doesn’t have one. Is this evidence that the iPad 3 will?
It was almost definitely not the first time Apple thought about how to revolutionise textbooks and education, but Joe Peters and a couple of Apple interns won its annual iContest, “sort of an American Idol for great ideas that gives interns a chance to present their best thoughts to executives”, by presenting a plan for cheap digital textbooks to enthusiastic Apple execs back in 2008, two years before the iPad was loosed on the world.
You may not be able to afford it, but Apple’s textbook transformation is pretty neat. Its hands-on time, class. Find a cosy seat, use your indoor voices and read along with Gizmodo. Today’s lesson: science!
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.
Steve Jobs wanted to do for education what he did for music, phones and tablet computers. Apple’s new textbooks was his Next Big Thing (or one of them).
iBooks Author, Apple’s new iPad textbook maker, is purported to be so easy to use that [insert stupid animate object here] could go and make one. So we figured we’d try our hand at it. Even if we won’t win any education or design awards, making a three-page book was a walk in the park.
