Week 1 Assignment: IPAD

 

ipad.... so fancy.

The biggest announcement Apple has made since the passing of Steve Jobs was the introduction of textbooks to the ipad through ibooks.

Apple main counter against traditional textbooks are: 

1. Paper textbooks are not only expensive but get torn with use

2. Regular textbooks are very heavy

Apple describes on its ipad homepage  (http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/) that since this generation of people that are subject to use textbooks are already submerse and consumed with technology that why not harbor that and raise the bar.

On ibooks, a textbook would cost a maximum of $14.99 a book, however to buy a ipad that price starts at $499.00.

Some feature that are included on ibooks is:

-the ability for publishers to include 3-D pictures and videos for students to watch.

-capability to take margin notes

-high light sections

-flip from page to page with a finger

-search contents

-and find definitions to words

thing list I am sure continues too.

This seems all well and good, now it is just getting the books you need on the ipad.

I personally have a nook tablet and none of the textbooks I need for class are on the nooktextbooks list and I have been having trouble finding the ebooks of any of them too.

Some publishers might not put the books on as ebooks making some textbooks traditional.

The conversion from traditional textbooks to electronic textbooks but it is definitely a big step in bringing our generation and generations to come completely into technology. So I suppose its up to you go do your own research I know my opinion :-)

Kimberly*Elaine