Apple iBooks 2 hands on review
iBooks 2 – store and availability
The range launches with just eight US schoolbooks covering maths, biology, chemisty and physics. Each opens with a video mashup of equations, effects and high energy pop that promises what's coming next isn't going to be just another boring old-fashioned textbook. They then continue as boring, old-fashioned textbooks.
Comments
cpwolves
1 year ago
Remember Dorling-Kindersley CD-Rom encyclopaedias? This has a similar feel, and doesn't seem to answer the online textbook problem.
The fact is that hard-copy textbooks generally have accompanying online content which provides a complete learning package, and having the whole text as an ebook doesn't improve matters.
In the US ebook sales have reached a plateau, and I expect the same will happen elsewhere as people realise that they just love to have a book in their hands. Publishers seem to think that just because students are young, they will demand the latest technology, but in fact they just want the most practical solution, which in many cases, is a book.
pozmu
1 year ago
Books may be practical, but carrying few kilos of them everyday to school isn't.
AppleUK
1 year ago
Private schools may be able to afford to buy an ipad for every student but it will never happen in state schools!