Possibly the biggest tech story of last week was the update of Apple's iBooks software and with that, the launch of the iBooks textbooks feature, which the company claims will "reinvent textbooks."

The idea is that students will be able to interact with their learning material, create study cards by highlighting text and diagrams that come alive at a touch. Users will also be able to create their own textbooks using iBook Author.

The reaction from both the technology and the education communities was swift and emphatic. Mashable's editor, Lance Ulanoff wrote: "Apple's plan to bring iPad textbooks to schools across America and around the world via iBooks 2 and iBooks Author is nothing short of a revolution." While Daniel Nicholls, a tech blogger tweeted: "Hyperbole be damned. Farewell textbooks."

Yet, in the days that have followed, many have focused on iBook Author's user agreement and expressed concerns about who will own the resources created using Apple's software. Steve Kovach writes: "Apple is providing you with a free tool that will help you sell your work through their own store. But even though it's your creation, Apple claims ownership over it simply because you used its app to make it." Glyn Moody went further in a blog entitled: Apple's iBooks 2: an attack on educational freedoms.

With growing support for open access in higher education, we would like to know what you make of iBooks 2. Do you think iBooks 2 is a victory or a loss for open access in education? Will the technology revolutionise teaching or are, like Jason Gilbert, more reserved about the results? The Huffington Post tech columnist wrote: "It takes a mega-corporation like Apple to shift the conversation and nudge a well-entrenched, multi-billion dollar industry in a proactive direction (just ask the major record labels). And though we shouldn't imagine that every inner-city elementary school student will be flicking and swiping through the alphabet by late 2012, we should celebrate that, at the very least, the nation at large is discussing - on Twitter, on Facebook and on major television networks - the need for a more technologically-advanced classroom."

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