John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin briefly recap the iPhone ringer/silent switch controversy, then discuss the new iBooks Author application, Apple's ebook ambitions and prospects, and the role of technology in education.

Links for this episode:

• The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained - YouTube
  
• Amazon Kindle supported file formats - Wikipedia
  
• EPUB - Wikipedia
  
• On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch - Daring Fireball
  
• Daring Fireball: On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch – Andy Ihnatko
  
• Designing “Mute” – Marco.org
  
• Mute Means Mute - hivelogic.com
  
• The United Kingdom Venn Diagram - Grey's Blog
  
• Comments from Jacob Refstrup on 2011-03-09 on [email protected]
  
• The iBooks 2.0 textbook format – Baldur Bjarnason
  
• 5by5 at the Movies #1: Goodfellas
  
• iBooks Author - Apple
  
• Kindle Format 8 Overview
  
• Push Pop Press - Al Gore's Our Choice
  

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