Apple recently revealed that it is holding an "invitation-only education event" on Jan. 19. No details were given about the event's focus, but there was plenty of speculation suggesting that we'll hear about Apple's plans to dominate the world digital textbooks. Now there's a report claiming that the company intends to announce the equivalent of "GarageBand for e-books."
The folks at Ars Technica say that unnamed sources close to the matter have confirmed that Apple intends to "announce tools to help create interactive e-books [...] and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users."
The GarageBand metaphor means that the tools for creating a textbook would be as simple and intuitive as Apple's music-creation software.
While — like any other report which relies heavily on anonymous sources — this one should be taken with a dash of salt, it does sound rather reasonable. After all, Apple's got a knack and history when it comes to providing accessible content production tools, such as GarageBand and iMovie — so why shouldn't it continue down that path?
The real question is, how can Apple add pizazz to a product that sounds as exciting as non-fat plain yogurt? Guess we'll have to wait until Thursday to find out.
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