Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing
Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the “GarageBand for e-books,” so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users.
Now I am becoming really curious about this…
It would be extremely interesting if 2012 and especially 2013 becomes the year of self publishing. Apple has completely changed the music industry, and artists can very easily self publish albums, without the need of a record label to support them. If they do this for (text)books, in the sense that they release both the tools (“Garageband for e-books”) and they open their iBook store to anyway (as they have with iTunes, and the App Store), we may see a flood of self published books to come out.
