Oops, forgot: Apple is getting into text books big time .. here is their ad:
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
They know its going to take a long time, transitioning to a new media,
dealing with legal and authoring issues. They are working on an IDE for
books, so to speak .. software that helps create the new books, with
interactive media etc. They also want to take readers way beyond the
current relatively static ebooks. Hard to say if they succeed, but they
have worked quite a bit with schools, and iTunesU is quite successful.
-- Owen
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do we deal with fair author protection? Certainly the current
> business model doesn't work. As prices soar, so does piracy.
>
> We have several authors on the list. Have you insights?
>
> -- Owen
>
> Just FYI: If you'd like to see the titles of the now-defunct russian site
> of 80,381 text books: http://backspaces.net/temp/all/all.txt Although
> the site is gone, my guess is that all of these are available via torrents.
>
>
>
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