by Kenny Hemphill
on January 19, 2012
in News
Apple announced a new version of iBooks today with support for interactive textbooks, and a Mac application for authoring them. Textbooks in iBooks 2 behave like apps and can be updated in the same way. They will be priced at $14.99. UK details have yet to be announced. Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson [...]
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by Kenny Hemphill
on January 18, 2012
in News
Sites across the web went ‘dark’ today in protest at the Protect-IP and Stop Online Piracy bills, currently being debated by US legislators. Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress.org, and O’Reilly were among those who choose to close for a day. In addition, the Internet Archive shut down for 12 hours.
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