University of Virginia, English Department

Interestingly enough, I am taking another class this semester that deals with the Ipad on some level. It is a publishing class here at UVA, and we get the opportunity to create our own books on ADOBE indesign as well as get the opportunity to print them. Our teacher, who has been around for many years, and is one of the main publishers of our local annual book, Meridian, spent an entire class this past week showing us a PowerPoint about how the Ipad is going to become increasingly popular and take precedence over books in the years to come. He showed us an interesting video from Apple, of how to create your own EPUB format book, right from your own computer.  I thought this pertained directly to our class in that this particular video showed how popular computer tablets are going to become, especially if average students like us are able to create books that will be able to function in the ipad! If you are interested in looking at the video we saw in class,  here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6mZaksmIs