After reading Audrey Watters “Apple and the digital textbook counter revolution” we saw Apples plans to change the textbook industry. They offer textbooks that are available to download from you Ipad and I even Iphones. Digital text books are a multi billion dollar industry with only “three top competitors.” It is very smart of Apple for them to jump on this band wagon. They have a reputation of their “green” attempts and their support of a clean environment. They allow people to save so much money, along with save millions of pounds of paper. I was able to purchase so many of my text books straight from my Ipad. Digital textbooks can also provide new tools of teaching. With digital slides, voice inputs and interactive slides, it can take learning to a totally new level. Text books are so heavy, a hassle to buy, and clearly outdated. We live in a more digital society and technology is to powerful. The younger generations “love iPads. Kids want iPads. And so the logic goes I guess, textbooks on iPads are weightless, up-to-date, affordable, interactive, exciting, engaging, desirable. It’s the same great content we’ve always had in textbooks, Phil Schiller said onstage today, just in a new digital format.” Ipads are used for school today by over a million people. And have so much support from the academic community that digital textbooks will be a major success.