[Athen] McGraw-Hill CEO confirms e-textbooks on new Apple tablet

[Shelley Haven]

In the linked video, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw confirms that their  
textbooks will be available on Apple's new tablet (to be announced  
Wed. morning) which runs the iPhone OS...but, of course, no mention of  
the accessibility of said e-textbooks.  A news crawler at the bottom  
of the interview points out "All titles on CourseSmart are available  
to students on the iPhone", so one could infer that such e-textbooks  
will have the same level of accessibility on the iPhone OS-based  
tablet -- namely, they're not.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/26/mcgraw-hill-ceo-confirms-apple-tablet-iphone-os-based-going-to-be-terrific/

"We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going  
to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be  
transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a  
consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are  
in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you're going to  
open up the higher education market, the professional market."


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Shelley Haven  ATP, RET
Assistive Technology Consultant
Shelley at TechPotential.net
www.TechPotential.net



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