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Apple's Textbooks Improve Everything but the Text |
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Written by Chris Maxcer
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Monday, 30 January 2012 06:00 |
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FG_AUTHORS: Chris Maxcer
After Apple announced that it had "reinvented" textbooks at its education media event in New York earlier in the month, I knew I had to take one for a spin myself. I downloaded the new iBooks 2 iPad app and launched it to get to the refreshed iBooks Store. I tapped the big "Introducing Textbooks" graphic and started looking. There were eight titles available, covering topics like Algebra, Geometry and Physics. Seven of them cost $14.99, which seems like a steal, but I'm not personally interested in learning Algebra 1 all over again, for example.Read more: |