See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/why-the-apple-textbook-program-will-never-work/6526. A sample: "My colleague Ed Bott has done a thorough job tearing apart the Apple licensing agreements and technical details that turn the iBooks textbook program into a “mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement”."
I had the same reaction when I saw the Apple terms announced some weeks ago. Bruce On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
