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Textbook publishers prep for the e-future

Textbook publishers sign on with Apple to take advantage of iPad

By D.C. Denison

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 26, 2012

For most of the past six months, Vicky Shen, an editor at textbook publisher Pearson Education in Boston, has been living with a secret. Just a few blocks away in Back Bay, Bethlam Forsa, executive vice president of global product development at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Inc. was working on the same undercover project. Both were preparing electronic editions for last week’s launch of an initiative from Apple Inc. to put textbooks on its iPad tablets.

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