Peter Kafka in Media on January 20 at 3:30 am PT
So will the McGraw-Hill CEO strike similar deals with Apple competitors like Amazon and Google? Good question.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 19 at 8:45 am PT
It’s like the old “make it up on volume” joke. Except this time it might work, if students and school districts play along.
John Paczkowski in Media on January 19 at 7:58 am PT
The textbook triumvirate is onboard for Apple’s new iBooks textbook store.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
A personal CIA for salespeople, InsideView aims to turn data from social media, financial databases and other sources into useful business intelligence.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 23, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
The iPad textbook creator Inkling has extended its Series A round to include leading educational publishers McGraw-Hill and Pearson, a coup that could help it get out ahead of other digital edition providers.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 20, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Maybe the iPad will move digital college textbooks out of theory and into practice.
Although electronic book sales have exploded, digital college textbooks have been slow to get off the ground, in part because of high prices and hardware concerns. Now, a former Apple Inc. employee, Matt Mac Innis, is trying to shake up the market with a new approach that taps into the iPad’s strengths.
Drake Martinet in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 11:12 am PT
Our garages have no flying cars, our cities are still built on the ground and our robots just barely clean the floor. But today, the secretive start-up formerly known as Kakai hopes to answer one of technology’s future promises by replacing the dense poundage of textbooks weighing down backpacks everywhere with its new Kno tablet device.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 28, 2010 at 9:39 am PT
Though it may have seemed like another of Apple’s perfectly timed third-party leaks, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw’s remarks to CNBC earlier this week were nothing of the sort. The publisher tells me it was not privy to iPad prelaunch details and that to conclude otherwise is a misinterpretation of McGraw’s comments.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2010 at 12:23 pm PT
As predicted, Steve Jobs showed off a new multimedia device today. One thing he didn’t show off, though: Much in the way of new media.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 26, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT
Apple’s mythical tablet exists. It’s based on the iPhone operating system. It will function as an e-reader–among other things. And it will indeed be uncrated at a special event tomorrow morning in San Francisco. This, according to McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw, who confirmed the device to CNBC today in another masterful Apple PR leak.
