Dang.

Jobs once again shows he is the man. Respect his authori-TAY!

http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/27/mcgraw-ipad/

The awkward array of five logos used to be a tidy lineup of six. The day
before the show, Apple removed McGraw-Hill, the 122-year-old publisher whose
61-year-old leader, Harold McGraw
III<http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/aboutus/profiles_mcgraw.shtml>— better
known as Terry — prattled
like a teenage 
schoolgirl<http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/26/mcgraw-hill-tablet/>about
the tablet’s iPhone operating system on CNBC:
McGraw-Hill is 
bigger<http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6671756.html>than
most of the publishers on this slide. But insiders say as soon as
Terry
shot his mouth off on CNBC, Jobs had the company cut from the presentation.
We won’t know for a few weeks if McGraw was only wrist-slapped, or if he’s
been thrown out of the game.

Either way, it’s a concrete lesson in just how far removed the publishing
industry can be from reality. In the past, music and movie fatcats were able
to figure out the unwritten rule that McGraw so glibly overlooked: If you’re
working with Apple, s*hut up* about it until Steve has left the s

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