350,000 Textbooks Downloaded From Apple's iBooks in Three Days [All Things D]
Last week Apple began offering textbooks through the iBooks Store. Three days later some 350,000 textbooks had been downloaded according to Apple.
It should be noted that it's not clear how many of these downloads were of E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth, which was offered for free so that users could see firsthand how textbooks looked on the iPad.
In perhaps more important news, iBooks Author, the developer tool for creating iBooks textbooks, was downloaded roughly 90,000 times in that same three-day period, meaning more and more offerings could be popping up in the iBooks Store.
The possibilities are endless and fantastic for future generations. School adoption of digital textbooks however will have a huge battle to overcome in some areas of the country, not to mention the very traditional thinkers who are not ready to step in this brave new world.
More so is getting other compaines on board as well to help build their own version of iBooks Author. There was such (in my opinion) a huge whine because anti Apple media journalist like Ed Bott http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-apple-is-sabotaging-an-open-standard-for-digital-books/4378?tag=mantle_skin;content claimed sabotage of the epub format.
This is the time to move education forward and step up the future.
Posted by: Chris Denny | Monday, January 30, 2012 at 08:19 AM