The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Publishers Were Already Working To Prepare Textbooks To The iPad

January 30, 2012

Publishers Were Already Working To Prepare Textbooks To The iPad

For most of the past six months, Vicky Shen, an editor at textbook publisher Pearson Education in Boston, has been living with a secret. Just a few blocks away in the Back Bay, Bethlam Forsa, executive vice president of global product development at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Inc. was working on the same undercover project. Both were preparing electronic editions for last week’s launch of an initiative from Apple Inc. to put textbooks on its iPad tablets. Read more at: http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-26/business/30663246_1_digital-textbooks-ipad-sarah-rotman-epps

Jan 30, 2012 2:05:00 AM | Books, Information Technology

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