New Software Allows Professors To Rewrite E-Textbooks

“While many publishers have offered customized print textbooks for years — allowing instructors to reorder chapters or insert third-party content from other publications or their own writing — [Macmillan’s] DynamicBooks gives instructors the power to alter individual sentences and paragraphs without consulting the original authors or publisher.”

Networks Resist Apple’s Effort To Halve Price Of TV Shows

“Apple wants to ignite TV show sales [on iTunes], especially as it prepares to introduce the iPad tablet computer next month. But its proposals to lower prices across the board are being met by skepticism from the major networks,” which “are wary of selling shows for less” and “of harming their far more lucrative deals with affiliates and cable distributors.”

FCC Launches Investigation Of Fox’s Our Little Genius

The parent’s complaint that triggered the probe “raises questions about the legitimacy of the breathless-and-bright-light game show competitions that populate the prime-time television landscape. The allegations … recall the quiz show scandals of the 1950s when TV executives fixed the outcomes of ‘Twenty One’ and ‘The $64,000 Question.'”