[access-uk] AppleInsider | Apple's NYC event rumored to deliver academic enhancements to iBooks platform

From: Gordon Keen <gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:40:04 +0000

Hi

Watch out guys, someone is looking over our shoulders!  :-)

Caveat:
Count the weasel words in this article, it's all speculation and rumour:


http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/03/apples_nyc_event_rumored_to_deliver_academic_enhancements_to_ibooks_platform.html

AppleInsider | Apple's NYC event rumored to deliver academic enhancements to 
iBooks platform

By AppleInsider Staff

Published: 01:44 PM EST (10:44 AM PST)
 

Apple's anticipated media event laster this month in New York City will focus 
on iTunes U, education and digital textbook publishing, a new rumor claims.

Journalist Clayton Morris of Fox News wrote on his personal blog on Tuesday 
that Apple will in fact deliver a presentation to the media in New York later 
this month. The location was allegedly chosen because it is "more centrally 
located for textbook and publishing."

He said the event was originally scheduled for late fall of 2011, but it was 
postponed. The press conference will reportedly focus on iTunes U, a free 
service Apple provides that gives access to educational content, and other 
education-oriented topics.

Morris's claims are followed by a report that came on Monday that stated Apple 
planned to make some industry-related announcements for publishers about the 
iBookstore platform, currently available on iOS devices. Word of the 
late-January event was first publicized by All Things D, which said the event 
will not feature any new hardware like an anticipated third-generation iPad or 
Apple television.

Morris has now added to those rumors with his own details, and he said the 
event will feature "a big announcement in a demure space." He expects "at least 
two large project announcements as they relate to Apple in education."

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was said to have been personally involved in this 
project before he passed away in early October. Jobs even told biographer 
Walter Isaacson that textbooks were one product he wanted to reinvent, along 
with photography and televisions.




While his latest information does corroborate with other recent reports, Morris 
has a spotty track record with respect to Apple rumors. Two years ago, he 
incorrectly claimed that Apple would show off iOS 4 and iLife 2010 at a January 
media event in California.

Morris's sources were also wrong in claiming that Apple would release two 
versions of the first-generation iPad: one with CDMA support, and one with GSM, 
to offer compatibility with both Verizon and AT&T 3G networks in the U.S.

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