Internet team to think Australia is a strong potential market for Amazon," the bank notified investors this week. "Australia with its high GDP per capita and highly concentrated East Coast population leads our U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley "is tipping" investors that Amazon, which is searching for a data center for its web services business in Australia, "could easily expand this presence into a full service offering targeting Australian consumers who are increasingly turning to offshore online shopping sites to save a buck," the Wall Street Journal reported. TechCrunch reported that Schiller also noted there are 20,000 education and learning applications that have been built for the iPad, and that 1,000 universities and colleges around the world are using iTunes U, which offers more than 500,000 pieces of audio and video material and has seen over 700 million downloads. John Duhigg, DK's deputy CEO, called the development "a giant leap for how illustrated books will work in the digital world." Philip Schiller, Apple's senior v-p of worldwide marketing, noted that "education is deep in Apple's DNA," adding that there are currently 1.5 million iPads in use in education institutions, including more than 1,000 one-to-one deployments.
DK Publishing is also included in the launch of iBooks 2, with four new titles created using the new iBooks Author tool.
An iBooks Author app to create digital, interactive textbooks.An iBooks 2 store app that now also offers e-textbooks for schools.At Apple's much-anticipated launch event yesterday in New York City, the company took direct aim at the education market with its promise to "reinvent textbooks" through the introduction of three new or updated tools, including what Apple described as "an entirely new kind of textbook that's dynamic, engaging and truly interactive." The apps include:
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