Archive for March, 2010

Article: The Viability of Electronic Textbooks
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Are students soon going to be carrying around all their textbooks on devices like the Kindle? In an article I wrote this week for the Occidental Weekly, I discuss the implications of textbooks as ebooks, and why I think e-textbooks aren’t yet ready for prime time. Click here to read the whole story >> Also [...]

Apple’s Long-Term Strategy for the iPad
Thursday, March 11th, 2010

A few weeks ago, I gave my initial impressions of the iPad. To quickly sum up my view, I said that the iPad doesn’t make sense in its current incarnation — that it does less than an iPhone, costs more, and definitely can’t fit in a pocket. If you’re going to be carrying around a [...]