Apple iBooks 2 sells 350,000 textbooks in three days

By: Chenda Ngak
Topics: Tech Talk

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(CBS) - Apple's iBooks 2 for the iPad is performing well, according to early statistics.

More than 350,000 textbooks have sold in just three days. All Things D reports, the numbers were sourced from Global Equities Research - a company that monitors Apple's iBook sales.

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Apple launches iBooks 2 digital textbooks

Last week, the company launched the iBooks 2 app for the iPad and its companion authoring tool - iBooks Author. Early numbers for iBooks Author are promising, as well, with about 90,000 downloads. The new technology promises to disrupt the textbook system as we know it.

Under Apple's new system, textbooks are sold directly to students, bypassing the middle man. Global Equities Research estimate the disruption in the supply chain will cut out roughly 33 percent to 35 percent out of the cost of books.

The research firm estimates production costs can be cut by 80 percent, so book publishers will be able to save, as well. High school textbooks will be available for $14.99 or less.

While these numbers are great, but there are currently no details on what we're really interested in: college textbooks.

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by yt75 January 23, 2012 2:13 PM EST: ebook, epub, ibook, pdf, text, apps, websites !
What is needed in this "affair" is a new role more than anything else.
This new role could be described as "personal contracts/licences holder" "account managers for personal contract/licences and login/passwds or certificates"(no contents or copies in there, just references), something like that, several of them of course, and ability to move all your "assets" or "belongings" from one to the other, so that a trust relationship can exist regarding the privacy of these data (and privacy of these data also under strong legal constraints for these organisations).
Then you can have an environment with a clear role separation between these organisations on one side, and editors, on line shops, on line content holders and difusers on the other.
Which then could allow a user to buy an ebook, apps, websites (access to) "for life"(or with some timing guarenteed in a strict legal point of view, but "for life" in spirit), possibility of upgrade if new edition and you feel like it, and that's it.
Enough with these "private bookshelves"(music, video, sito shelves) linked to some device maker, on line shops, "social network", or some other giant !
A bit more developed below :
http://iiscn.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/concepts-economie-numerique-draft/
(and in the "copies_licences" text (2007) linked in the post)

And almost EVERYTHING already there really; Reply to this comment