And be sure to read http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360?tag=content;siu-container
for which there's a link on the page shown below, but you don't want to miss it. The Apple contract just blows one's mind. Bruce On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
