I made an easy prediction to my wife yesterday about Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation. I predicted that McGraw-Hill would be intentionally removed from his presentation, because of Harold McGraw’s gaff on CNBC the day before. Around minute 2:50, he spills the beans about the announcement, and looks completely clueless about it.
That move kept Jobs from including the McGraw-Hill logo in the list of publishers participating in the iBook store on the iPad. It also contributed to Jobs completely glossing over how the iPad would be useful to the educational market – something I’m sure he was going to include in his presentation. In fact, the only statement that Steve Jobs made about textbooks was this:
We think the iPad is going to make a terrific e-book reader not just for popular books, but for textbooks as well.
Ouch!
