The Church of Steve Jobs announced their foray into the textbook world this month. The goal is to distribute digital textbooks through iTunes that can be read on an iPad for just $15 a pop. That pissed me off at first. Do you know how many nights I went hungry because I spent my grocery money on textbooks in college? If it weren't for the good folks at Maruchan and Top Ramen, I would've starved to death. My first accounting textbook cost more than my entire college wardrobe, but I digress. At present time this new service only deals with high school textbooks to which I raise this question:
In what world do high school kids all have iPads?
I understand that most of it would center around the school system providing iPads for the kids and then having them download the books through perhaps some kind of licensing deal. Still...
In what world do high school kids have iPads?
I graduated from DC Public Schools in 2000, supposedly the new millennium. The last chapter in my US History book talked about Reagan just being elected to his first term as President and the new Challenger space shuttle. My pre-Calculus class didn't even have a textbook. Why? Because the school threw away the old books when they ordered the new ones but the budget was cut so they couldn't afford to pay for them. My teacher ended up making photocopies of the Teacher's Guide and giving it out chapter by chapter with the answers redacted.
And I went to a MAGNET school.
I am a devout Jobs-ologist, but even I don't understand really how this is going to work.
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