{"id":456,"date":"2012-01-23T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/23\/will-apple-change-the-future-of-textbooks\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:44","slug":"will-apple-change-the-future-of-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/23\/will-apple-change-the-future-of-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Apple change the future of textbooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5tHusCWy1Qs\/Tx10Tz-etGI\/AAAAAAAAAC4\/WKN27l7xMK0\/s1600\/iBookAuthor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 300px;height: 207px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5tHusCWy1Qs\/Tx10Tz-etGI\/AAAAAAAAAC4\/WKN27l7xMK0\/s320\/iBookAuthor.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700840587039519842\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>News is flying around Apple&#8217;s new tool to create multimedia textbooks for the iPad.  Last week Apple announced its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ibooks-author\/\">iBooks Author<\/a>, which allows anyone to create an e-book on the ePub3 platform.  Touted as the &#8220;Garage Band&#8221; app for authors, many think that this could cut e-textbook publishers out of the production loop and make ebooks more affordable for students.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2012\/01\/apple-to-announce-tools-platform-to-digitally-destroy-textbook-publishing.ars\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">arsTechnica<\/span><\/a> article and campus responses to the news in the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/campus-reactions-to-apples-entry-into-e-textbook-market\/35119?sid=wc&amp;utm_source=wc&amp;utm_medium=en\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts?  How will this change the e-textbook landscape?<\/p>\n<p>(Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ibooks-author\/\">Apple iBooks Author<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News is flying around Apple&#8217;s new tool to create multimedia textbooks for the iPad. Last week Apple announced its iBooks Author, which allows anyone to create an e-book on the ePub3 platform. Touted as the &#8220;Garage Band&#8221; app for authors, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2012\/01\/23\/will-apple-change-the-future-of-textbooks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Will Apple change the future of textbooks?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,497,136,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}