Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing

tomsem · 4 months

so much for 'portable' ePub files...

tomsem · 4 months

Nice analysis

tomsem · 4 months

I was afraid this would be the case (that Mirasol is not the reflective color screen we are looking for)

tomsem · 4 months

a rumor, to be sure. I don't think Apple is well positioned for this, anyway, e.g. what if one doesn't have an iPad? Is Apple (finally) going to have iBooks for OS X, at least?

tomsem · 5 months

I assume the comic books (Watchman etc.) and children's books are one existing form of KF8 (fixed layout with 'panel views'). I think Nate is correct that a full implementation already exists on Kindle Fire, though perhaps not a 'final' one.

tomsem · 5 months

Note that the Triton screen is only nominally '1600x1200': RGBW LCD on top of 800x600 eInk (though detailed specs are lacking). Remains to be seen what the 'effective' resolution is, given this is a 9.7" screen. And at $499 it is difficult to see it competing well against much more versatile iPad or Android tablets. Wonder what OS it is running?

tomsem · 5 months

I think this may have to do with developing the textbook market. This is the latest in PDF moves: recent appearance of 'Print Replica' format, improved PDF support on Kindle Touch, etc. I think PDF support on KT (Fire, and now K4Android) is no longer based on Adobe RMSDK (used on K2, K3 & K4), because the respective User Guides no longer attribute Adobe Reader technology.

tomsem · 5 months

European Commission is investigating the same thing

tomsem · 5 months

It doesn't even have a built in dictionary...

tomsem · 6 months

Includes support for Japanese text layout as specified in EPUB3.

tomsem

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