It's called the Kindle Textbook Creator, and it lets authors prepare electronic textbooks for students, for publication across Fire tablets, Android devices, iPhones and iPads, Mac and PCs.
Kindle Textbook Creator seems designed for speed, and for working with the legacy textbook publishing industry, as opposed to iBooks Author which is more designed to help educators build digital-native experiences from scratch.
The EDU Textbook Creator seems fairly simple in its current form, but Amazon says it will continue to add features as time goes on, so don't be surprised if tools for educators get a lot more sophisticated eventually.
B3 OBITUARIES A27 Louis S. Goodman The pharmacologist, a discoverer of an effective anticancer chemotherapy and a creator of a textbook used by generations of doctors, was 94.
Dr. Louis S. Goodman, a renowned pharmacologist, a discoverer of the first effective anticancer chemotherapy and a creator of a textbook used by generations of doctors, died at his home in Salt Lake City on Nov. 19.
She tells first the biblical creation story - which would presumably please the creators of Texas textbooks (and which many if not most Christians see for what it is: a story).
Former elementary school teacher, TV reporter and textbook author Pleasant Rowland is the creator of the hugely popular American Girl dolls.
He loved Brooklyn Tech — even now, he remembers fondly the name of the author of his industrial processes textbook, and the day that Alex Raymond, the creator of Flash Gordon, spoke to students.
In any event, the concepts/products I saw that seemed the most compelling and relevant were the Vuzix HMD, Metaio's Creator software and the augmented textbook by linked-concept.de.
Students must learn about the technology in a new way; they must learn the computer science so that they can become creators and innovators, not just readers of digital textbooks and consumers of modernized worksheets.
