Apple launched iBooks Author all the way back in early 2012, so the only surprise about Amazon’s new self-published digital textbook platform, KDP EDU, is that it took so long. The public beta of Amazon’s Kindle Textbook Creator tool allows educators to turn PDFs of their textbooks and course materials into Kindle books. Available features include flashcards, multi-color highlighting, and the ability to capture key phrases and images and save them to a single location. (Textbooks created with Amazon’s tool are “only available through the Kindle store,” per Amazon’s EULA, just as Apple limits ebooks created with their software to their store.) KDP director […]
