New York: Apple is expected to introduce textbooks on Thursday at a media event taking place at the New York Guggenheim Museum which would shake up the educational industry.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple “is expected to unveil textbooks optimized for the iPad and that feature ways to interact with the content, as well as partnerships with publishers.”
The WSJ specifically mentions that McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are among the education-publishing companies most likely affected by an Apple textbook announcement but stopped short of linking the titans of textbook publishing to Thursday’s announcement.
Previous rumors said that Apple will show no new devices, and that the event will center around Apple’s new partnerships with textbook publishers.
The company also plans to expand its platform to distribute these e-books to iPhone and iPad users after providing providing thousands of schools with iPads to use in classrooms.
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