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2 New Platforms Offer Alternative to Apple’s Textbook-Authoring Software – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
Shortly after the release of iBooks Author in the iBooks Author – Finally a FREE Platform for Creating Books blog post I stated:
…I look forward to seeing that impact it will have on the book and textbook publishing industry.
We are starting to see this impact and I hope that Booktype a FREE ebook development platform and Inkling’s Habitat are only the beginning of a long list of tools or platforms that provide authors and academia an ever growing lists of tools that they can use to digitally produce, publish and distribute their work.
Whether you are for or against the Google Book Deal, this latest rejection by the US Justice Department raises some significant doubts.
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