
Do you Love2Read? 2012 in Australia is the National Year of Reading. Ensuring that Australians become a nation that loves to read is what it is all about. It’s also about boosting the literacy of children and adults, especially on a screen.

The news from the corporate world that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is for a second time on medical leave, this time indefinite, is very sobering. For someone whose whole adult life seems to have been in one way or another connected to Apple computers, it is with some ambivalence that I reflect on what that means for Apple, and the world at large, when their powerhouse executive is no longer guiding the helm.

Apple is relying on ease of use, crisp, clean wide angle and accessible viewing display to carve out a whole new market for its new wiz bang wonder iPad. Its e reader capabilities are tipped to be the key to its success over the next decade. It was my eldest son who first started teaching [...]