AllThingsD:
Within days of its debut, Apple’s iBooks textbook store had already racked up a significant number of downloads.
According to Global Equities Research, which monitors Apple’s iBook sales via a proprietary tracking system it doesn’t much care to discuss, more than 350,000 textbooks were downloaded from the company’s iBooks Store within the first three days of availability.
…There were some 90,000 downloads of iBooks Author, Apple’s free textbook-creation tool, during the same time.
As usual, these numbers should be taken with a little salt – Global Equities Research doesn’t disclose how they came about the number and many downloads may be from those of us long past the days when we needed, used or bought textbooks.
The self publishing market just got a boost. It’s a blog with keynote/pages formatting.
iWeb is dead, long live iWeb
DRACONIAN APPLE! HRALALALAUGH!
“many downloads may be from those of us long past the days when we needed, used or bought textbooks.”
You say this as if it lessens the meaning of those downloads.
If Apple’s managed to convince people like you and I to buy a text book and work through a course, Apple gets the money nonetheless. If we carry through with it, the world gets just a tinniest fraction smarter. The world could certainly use it.