<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/26/mcgraw-hill-ceo-confirms-apple-tablet-iphone-os-based-going-to-be-terrific/">http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/26/mcgraw-hill-ceo-confirms-apple-tablet-iphone-os-based-going-to-be-terrific/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 15px; ">"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." </span></div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>_____________________________</div><div>Shelley Haven ATP, RET</div><div>Assistive Technology Consultant</div><div><a href="mailto:Shelley@TechPotential.net">Shelley@TechPotential.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.TechPotential.net">www.TechPotential.net</a></div></div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>