"If a typical textbook costs $100 and has a five-year replacement cycle, now you’re buying a new open text and telling them they can highlight it and mark in it and do whatever they want. The price has to be less than $20 a book for that to work out. So some chemistry teachers took this 1,400-page chemistry book and turned it into a 250 -age book that covers what they want it to, and they’ve read every single word. On a short print run, including shipping, the books cost $7.30."
"I knew the son she once sent away never came home per se, instead I did, a shell of a man."
"Yes, you can look things up, but if you don’t have an INTRINSIC store of knowledge you likely won’t be able to do a whole lot of anything with only your SKILLS!"
I really like this ad. That’s good humor.
"… the only things being rethought here are the delivery models of a traditional education and, most importantly, the financial models to sustain it …"
— http://willrichardson.com/post/12686013800/my-teacher-is-an-app
Great ressource for vegans, recipes and products presented with nice photos.
"One revolution I’m sure is coming is the remaking of the print publishing industry. As I’ve said before (link), once about 20% of the reading public has electronic devices, an established author can make more money bypassing print and selling direct through e-readers. I think the new Kindle line, and especially the entry-level Kindles at $99 and below, will finally push us past the 20% threshold. It will take a couple of years to play out, but this will force the long-awaited restructuring, or destruction, of the traditional book publishing industry."
— Mobile Opportunity: Amazon vs. Apple? No, it’s Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else
"Steve has always pointed out that the biggest difference between Apple and all the other computer (and post-PC) companies through history is that Apple always tried to marry art and science. Jobs pointed out the original team working on the Mac had backgrounds in anthropology, art, history, and poetry. That’s always been important in making Apple’s products stand out. It’s the difference between the iPad and every other tablet computer that came before it or since. It is the look and feel of a product. It is its soul."
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The Top Ten Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us - If We’ll Listen - Forbes
I wholly agree here. To that marriage of art and science has always been what makes Apple devices appealing to me. They simply feel different.
It’s ten years since Kurt Cobain suicide which ended Nirvana, the band that changed so much.
