From: paul stenquist
Good idea. Electronic textbooks are starting to appear. It won't be
long until they're the status quo.
Paul
On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
> Here is my idea of a runaway hit for the iPad.
> 1) Make it multitask apps - you'll see why in a minute
> 2) Negotiate with College Textbook publishers for ebooks of all
> textbooks - $50 a pop - way cheaper than the printed ones, but COGS
> is low
> 3) Have a decent note taking app
> 4) Have a small, decent word processor
> 5) sell to college students instead of a laptop
>
> I have two girls in college. Books are outrageous in price. The
> battery life of the iPad and ebooks would work perfectly for them.
> Beyond lots of web surfing/social networking, just lightweight word
> processing is needed. The appeal of the iPad would be embraced by
> that group. The price is a no brainer because I wouldn't have to buy
> them a laptop and the cost of college texts would more than pay for
> the device the first year.
>
Interestingly, I was reading in another forum about Apple's effect on
the prices of ebooks.
Apparently Steve Jobs at Apple was a prime mover behind major textbook
publisher MacMillan's decision extort higher prices from Amazon for
their books on Amazon's Kindle.
Higher prices for ebooks diminish the Kindle's price advantage.
As for the ipad ... well, it doesn't multi-task, and Apple appears
prepared to continue the same restrictive tactics they've adopted
regarding iphone apps, so it's a forlorn hope getting a decent note
taking app or small decent word processor.
And there's no USB, it's Wi-Fi only, so you're going to have to buy them
a laptop anyway.
You can get a decent netbook and a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet for the price
of the basic ipad, and they WILL multitask and DO have USB already.
Did someone else post this here? Or did I find it somewhere else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXpbGaIkPlw
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