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Amazon: "Primed" to disrupt Apple's textbook plans?  Summary:
Apple may have thrown down the gauntlet for the iPad in
education, but don't count Amazon out.  So. Apple. A huge
library of textbooks for $14.99 each and a free authoring
program for rich textbook content.  That about sums up this last
week's events.  Oh wait. You can only sell that content produced
with iBooks Author on the App Store and of course all of those
texts are stuck in Apple's "Walled Garden".  Are we supposed to
be surprised that this is the way Cupertino wants to do
business? No, of course not.  It does bring up the issue however
that if Apple becomes successful in making iBooks electronic
textbooks a successful enterprise and an educational standard, a
"digital underclass" might be created for those who cannot
afford to purchase electronic texts if paper texts become no
longer economically feasible to produce.  While I projected that
this is probably more likely to happen