iWork VP Roger Rosner Taking Charge of Apple's Digital Textbook Initiative
According to the Wall Street Journal, Roger Rosner is the executive in charge of Apple's digital textbook tools. According to his LinkedIn page, Rosner is a Vice President for Productivity Applications at Apple, and has been with the company since 2001, prior to which he was CEO of Bluefish Labs, a software development firm that Apple purchased.
Prior to working on the textbook service, Rosner was in charge of Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- Apple's iWork suite of office applications. Jessica Vascellaro writes for the WSJ:
Mr. Rosner's involvement is a sign of how strongly Apple intends to emphasize textbook creation, in a move to change the type of educational content that exists on the market. It also underscores how as textbooks—and all media—goes digital, it is increasingly important for tech companies to get media companies to create digital content with their software or in formats compatible with their services and devices.
Whether Mr. Rosner, whose LinkedIn profile pegs him at Apple for more than a decade, will take the stage on Thursday remains unclear. If so, audiences may remember him from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this past June, where he demonstrated features of iCloud, the company's online syncing and storing service.
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I really hope Apple can install some sanity into the despicable situation with student textbooks. As of now, even if you want to do your part, and eliminate wasteful use of resources by printing textbooks year after year which have only trivial details separating them from the year before, you can buy some books in eBook format. For example on this site: www.cengagebrain.com
You can buy at least some books in eBook format, being a good samaritan, but can you put it on your iPad and stash it away on the shelf in iBooks?
No.
No, you have to lease the item off the website, thereby only able to access the book while under hegemony of the internet, login on their website, and browsing.
Which makes it less portable than a regular heavy textbook.
Thus we can have technology liberate us, or enslave us to further hassles, and petty tribute.
I hope Apple will muster the gusto to allow the former.
EDIT:
Here's a workaround, but it's just that - a workaround:
http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-create-and-modify-icloud-stored-iwork-files-on-os-x/
Not particularly viable for the mass market.
Mr. Rosner's involvement is a sign of how strongly Apple intends to emphasize textbook creation,
So... it's going to be so low a priority that some aspects of it *cough*iWork.com*cough* won't ever actually come out of beta?
I agree with others that a new iWork would be nice... I'd really like to have Numbers finally be a full featured replacement for Excel... and Pages for Word... I think Keynote is still well ahead of Powerpoint, is it not?
I hope they correct that right away, and a side note to this event or even a quiet update after it would be an ideal opportunity.
Ahh, look what we have here. Another communist product of Apple. Look at this freak. :mad:
???? What is this about? Post to the wrong page or does the poster just see red?
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