McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV

http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/27/mcgraw-ipad/

by transburgh • 16 years ago

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cmelbye• 16 years ago

Macmillian is McGraw-Hill, and they're on that slide along with the others.

stephencelis3• 16 years ago

http://www.macmillan.com

Macmillan is not McGraw-Hill.

quellhorst• 16 years ago

http://www.mhschool.com/ From the above url, its hard to tell if the companies are different.

throw_away• 16 years ago

I think Macmillan/McGraw-Hill was just a joint venture they have in elementary school textbooks. Macmillan is private, while McGraw is public, so I don't think either is owned by the other.

jmount• 16 years ago

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/08/02/

barrkel• 16 years ago

Indeed, this is the first thing I thought of when I read about McGraw chirping up:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/00/07/19/apple_turns_co...

Etc.

tibbon• 16 years ago

Not that McGraw-Hill published Harry Potter (because they didn't) but could have you imagined how much a publisher would have flipped out if Steve Jobs had leaked the ending of the final Harry Potter books the day before it came out (had he known the contents)?

When I saw this guy on TV I was thinking, "What the hell is he thinking- there's no way Apple is sanctioning this"

patio112• 16 years ago

That leak would have sounded like: "Wow, I just got done with the new Harry Potter book. It is amazing -- it has, like, magic and stuff, and there are these three kids, and they keep saving the world. We're so happy to have it on the iPad -- it is going to sell a whole lot of copies."

i.e. it only matters if you're a legendarily obsessive control freak.

netcan• 16 years ago

Not exactly. It's leaking a secret. "Harry Potter has wizards in it" wasn't a secret.

allenbrunson• 16 years ago

a couple of years ago, there were a group of trolls who had gotten hold of one of the potter books a few days before release, and went around trying to spoil it for everyone, by revealing how one character murders another one in the end. not surprisingly, the author and many of her readers were upset over it. so no, it does NOT only matter if you are a "legendary obsessive control freak."

pmorici• 16 years ago

Though it was a dumb gaff on his part it's not like he is the only CEO type to do this, the executive editor at the NYT did something similar did he not? http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/26/itablet-leak-assumpt...

ecq• 16 years ago

http://www.linkedin.com/companies/macmillanmcgraw-hill

looks like macmillan and mcgraw-hill are the same companies.

stephencelis3• 16 years ago

They're not ;) See below, or,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1083043

noonespecial• 16 years ago

That's damn near Seinfeldian. No pad for you! One Year!

JunkDNA• 16 years ago

"Either way, it’s a concrete lesson in just how far removed the publishing industry can be from reality"

I'm sorry but this is an example of how far-removed the Silicon Valley echo chamber can be from reality. When you're dealing with people far removed from the tech field, they have a very different set of ideas about what is important.

theprodigy• 16 years ago

Apple and Mcgraw Hill need each other. Mcgraw needs the distribution platform and hardware and Apple needs the content. They will forgive and forget what happened.

McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV

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