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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Apple to Have "Education-Related" Press Conference

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Apple to Have "Education-Related" Press Conference:

Apple to Have "Education-Related" Press Conference

From Apple Insider:

As Apple's education-related media event on Thursday approaches, multiple reports are claiming that the company could announce an initiative to help textbook makers produce interactive ebooks for the iPad, with some sources calling the initiative "Garageband for e-books."

According to the report, some industry executives are also confident that Apple will likely unveil a textbook publishing tool this week. Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis, who worked on education projects at Apple before leaving to focus on interactive e-books, voiced his belief that a textbook app from Apple is in the works.

"When you think about what Apple is doing... they are selling tens of thousands of iPads into K-12 institutions,"