Brenneman: Some iPad Textbooks Weigh In Above Apple's 2GB Book Size Limit

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Some iPad Textbooks Weigh In Above Apple's 2GB Book Size Limit

cult of mac took @ size of digital textbooks available on ibooks after today's education-focused media event. file sizes range pearson's 793mb environmental science hefty 2.77gb biology.

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- pearson's environmental science - 793mb
- national's chemistry - 959mb
- e.o. wilson's life on earth - 965mb
- mcgraw hill's algebra 1 - 1.09gb
- mcgraw hill's geometry - 1.22gb
- mcgraw hill's physics - 1.25gb
- mcgraw hill's biology - 1.49gb
- pearson's biology - 2.77gb
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for regular authors, apple limits file size of books created ibooks author app 2gb -- pearson's tome exceeds. unsurprisingly, major publishers bypass limits average author must abide.

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