McGraw-Hill CEO: Apple tablet iPhone OS-powered, will have 95% of McGraw-Hill...
Per MacRumors, the CEO of McGraw-Hill has let a few interesting factoids slip about the new Apple tablet, starting at about 2:50 in the video below the jump. Here is the transcript: Yeah, Very...
View ArticleEarth to publishers: Apple tablet or not, consumers will spend only so much...
Amid all the excited headlines today about the Apple tablet or other technology, one of the more important doesn’t mention the A word at all. It’s from the New York Observer and reads: After three...
View ArticleiPad quick link roundup
A few iPad quick-links: Remember how McGraw-Hill’s CEO blithely leaked about his company’s involvement with the iPad last night? Insiders tell VentureBeat that as a result, any mention of his company...
View ArticleThe real agenda of Apple’s ebook partners: death to ebooks by Aaron Pressman
The head of one of the big book publishers, Macmillan CEO John Sargent Jr., is out with an “open” letter about his dispute with Amazon over the pricing and timing of electronic books. It’s telling that...
View ArticleiPhone/iPad e-book app review: BookShelf
The last few e-readers I’ve reviewed have been corporate-, or at least company-created—crafted by teams of developers, with a very smooth and polished look to them and, with the exception of eReader,...
View ArticleResisting DRM: Doctorow on the iPad, ‘Sita’ and Netflix
Here are a couple of stories related to taking a stand on principles concerning DRM: In Cory Doctorow’s latest editorial for Publishers Weekly, Doctorow sets his sights on the iPad and bangs the “DRM...
View ArticleSteve Jobs against the world?
As many others I came across mr. Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, a 1700 word open letter to the community this month and, as many others can’t ignore the message. I am a ‘late user’ of Apple products, and...
View ArticleOn design, looks and statistics
Today I stumbled on the TED website. This is an incredibly interesting collections of short talks (20 minutes) given by well known ‘remarkable’ people. These are a couple of examples, but I must...
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