09-21-2010, 05:27 PM
It's for reading MRF; not posting to it...
The revolution will be in education, when iPads are loaded with all the textbooks kids need; the kink will be working out the vig for the authors and publishers. My kid's HS textbooks run about a grand a year+/-, so an iPad for HS & college to load w/ textbooks would be a win-win-win situation, maybe. The schools buy used texts for 25% and resell for 50% (or 30/60 or whatever), and I don't think the authors and publishers participate in that "recycling", so digital textbook market is huge... I gotta believe w/ AAPL's educational marketing background, that they're busy working onexploiting making the iPad a viable and valuable educational market tool.
The revolution will be in education, when iPads are loaded with all the textbooks kids need; the kink will be working out the vig for the authors and publishers. My kid's HS textbooks run about a grand a year+/-, so an iPad for HS & college to load w/ textbooks would be a win-win-win situation, maybe. The schools buy used texts for 25% and resell for 50% (or 30/60 or whatever), and I don't think the authors and publishers participate in that "recycling", so digital textbook market is huge... I gotta believe w/ AAPL's educational marketing background, that they're busy working on