[LINK] Green Technology Strategies on Apple iPad

[Tom]

Apple have made my book "Green Technology Strategies" available in ePub 
format on their iTunes store: 
<http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/green-technology-strategies/id442880443?mt=11>.

This came as quite a surprise. I recall requesting this of LuLu.com (who 
distribute the PDF, paperback and hardcover editions) some months ago. 
This contrasts with the Amazon.com Kindle Edition, which took less than 
a 24 hours to publish.

The book has been available since 8 June 2011, but it has taken me a 
week to get around to reading the message I got from LuLu. This said my 
book was on the "iBookstore", but I had no idea what that was. 
Apparently this is what Apple called the book part of their on-line 
store. None of the links in the LuLu message were to LuLu's web site, so 
I assumed this was a hoax email.

I am not sure how many people will buy a book from Apple. One curious 
point is that Apple seem to be reluctant to say that you do not need an 
Apple device to read the book: just about any smart phone, tablet 
computer, laptop or desktop will do.

The book consists of a 297 kbyte file, which has been zip compressed 
(the paper version has about 100 pages). The file contains 516 Kbytes, 
mostly made up of the HTML text of the book, with one HTML file per 
chapter. The HTML of the ePub version is almost identical to that of the 
Kindle Edition, the free web version and the IMS Content Package, all of 
which are derived from the Moodle Learning Management System course 
file: <http://www.tomw.net.au/green/>.


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Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, The
Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre: http://bit.ly/csiro_ict_canberra