| man-bear-pig said: Another problem will be that schools wont want to buy ipads until there is a wide variety of textbooks available, and publishers wont want to make books for ipad until there is a large number of schools which have them, so it is a stalemate situation, or at least it may be initially. |
Not really. Initially, most of the available textbooks will be straight text conversions of their paper counterparts. This will get some people to use iPads to read them and a few more will buy iPads just for that purpose. Over time, both textbooks and iPads grow in numbers. Over time, this allows publishers to dedicate more funds to creating interactive textbooks as revenue increases. It's no different than any other software-based system, really. Consoles work in much the same fashion. Early games are ports or are rough around the edges, not using anything close to the full power of the system. As the userbase grows, developers dedicate more money and time to create bigger and better games for the hardware.
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