More on Apple's Textbook Plans for Thursday's Media Event

the wall street journal takes look @ apple's plans education-focused media event scheduled thursday, , while report bit short on specifics, examine of possibilities , demonstrates how textbook industry ripe shakeup @ hands of apple.

among more specific claims included in article brief discussion of company's work textbook publisher mcgraw-hill on project has been underway since last june.

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mcgraw-hill cos., pearson , houghton mifflin harcourt among education-publishing companies affected apple textbook announcement. companies have experimented interactive approaches, such allowing students take quizzes read , hear audio foreign-language study, many digital textbooks have looked lot physical counterparts.

mcgraw-hill has been working apple on announcement since june, person familiar matter said. wasn't known whether pearson , houghton mifflin participate.

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the report points cengage learning, textbook publisher has worked apple in past , attendance @ thursday's event. cengage acknowledges combination of content apple's hardware , distribution "could exciting", declined talk specifics of deal.

apple's media event being held @ guggenheim museum in new york city on thursday, january 19. scheduled begin @ 10:00 eastern / 7:00 pacific, , apple senior vice president eddy cue has been reported key figure in presentation.

article link: more on apple's textbook plans thursday's media event

 

i hoping ipad 2 gets price drop $399, @ least educational market. put in hands of lot more students, making default tablet edu market , helping apple regain dominance there.

 

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