Yesterday Apple ignited a firestorm of debate on the subject of digital books, and the future of the publishing industry, book distribution, and likely consumer consumption patterns. They announced their goal of following through on Steve Jobs’ mandate to transform textbook publishing. I believe that what they’re doing is sparking the emergence of a whole new medium, one that takes aim at textbooks first. Here’s why…
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Way back in the digital Dark Ages of the early 1990s, some of my colleagues left Aldus, a digital publishing pioneer, to found a company called MetaBridge. Their goal was to develop a “cross-media” publishing platform that would enable content owners and publishers to readily adapt content for optimal display across multiple resolutions and aspect […]
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Revised on December 18, 2009