Apple made several announcements yesterday which can drive the textbook’s digital transformation — or, in Steve Jobs’ more colourful phrase, its “digital destruction”. My pick is that this will  be the tipping point for educational publishing, its ‘iPod moment’ or ‘Kindle moment’ when the market suddenly takes off. But Apple’s moves will go much further [...]

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When Apple took its heavy-handed action against retailers last month, stopping them selling from within iPad and iPhone apps, those retailers were inevitably going to search for ways to avoid this happening in future. Any business would want to know that its very existence wasn’t subject to the changing whims of Apple management. It turns [...]

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I went to update the Kobo app on my iPad this morning but stopped when I saw what has changed. The main reason for the update is to cut access  to the Kobo ebookstore from within the reading app. Instead, you have to fire up a separate browser, go to their store and make the purchase outside the [...]

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Apple has announced the first update to its hugely successful iPad. Billed by most commentators as an incremental rather than major upgrade, it sports dual cameras (front and rear) to support its Facetime video conferencing, a doubling of processor performance, and thinner, lighter construction. Apple has kept the price (US$499 for the WiFi model) and the [...]

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Apple has given in to developer pressure and done a major about-face with changes to its App Store developer licence terms. Big winners: Adobe and thousands of publishers and developers who rely on its tools. The original change back in April threw Adobe’s entire mobile strategy into disarray and caught publishers in the crossfire. It [...]

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