{"id":862,"date":"2010-02-03T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=862"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:03:47","slug":"textbooks-they-may-be-a-changin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/03\/textbooks-they-may-be-a-changin\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbooks &#8212; they may be a changin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"textbooks\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703338504575041630390346178.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals For iPad<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from the Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices such as Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPad will transform the classroom. The publishers are tapping the know-how of ScrollMotion Inc. to develop textbook applications and test-prep and study guides for the iPad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><strong><a title=\"texbooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/login.html?source=http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2010\/02\/02\/328377gxgrtechbooks_ap.html&amp;destination=http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2010\/02\/02\/328377gxgrtechbooks_ap.html&amp;levelId=1000\" target=\"_blank\">Ga. Senate Votes to Change Definition of &#8216;Textbook&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from Education Week<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Georgia students could download books instead of loading down their backpacks under a new bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"changes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/02\/AR2010020203910.html?wpisrc=nl_tech\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Amazon-Macmillan book saga heralds publishing&#8217;s progress <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Last weekend, a noisy little melodrama in the book publishing world involving Amazon.com and Macmillan provided a wonderful case study of the radical transformation taking place all across the economy as a result of the digital revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals For iPad &#8212; from the Wall Street Journal &#8220;Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices such as Apple Inc.&#8217;s iPad will transform the classroom. The publishers are tapping the know-how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,140],"tags":[640,643],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-publishing","tag-publishing","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}