iBooks
textbooks offer iPad users fullscreen textbooks with interactive
animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much
more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don't weigh down a
backpack and never have to be returned. Leading education services
companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson
will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore with most priced at
$14.99 or less, and with the new iBooks Author, a free authoring tool
available today, anyone with a Mac can create stunning iBooks textbooks.
“Education is deep in Apple’s DNA and iPad may be our most exciting
education product yet. With 1.5 million iPads already in use in
education institutions, including over 1,000 one-to-one deployments,
iPad is rapidly being adopted by schools across the US and around the
world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide
Marketing. “Now with iBooks 2 for iPad, students have a more dynamic,
engaging and truly interactive way to read and learn, using the device
they already love.”
The new iBooks 2 app is available today as a free download from the App
Store. With support for great new features including gorgeous,
fullscreen books, interactive 3D objects, diagrams, videos and photos,
the iBooks 2 app will let students learn about the solar system or the
physics of a skyscraper with amazing new interactive textbooks that come
to life with just a tap or swipe of the finger. With its fast, fluid
navigation, easy highlighting and note-taking, searching and
definitions, plus lesson reviews and study cards, the new iBooks 2 app
lets students study and learn in more efficient and effective ways than
ever before.
iBooks
Author is also available today as a free download from the Mac App Store
and lets anyone with a Mac create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks,
history books, picture books and more, and publish them to Apple’s
iBookstore. Authors and publishers of any size can start creating with
Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts.
iBooks Author lets you add your own text and images by simply dragging
and dropping, and with the Multi-Touch widgets you can easily add
interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations and 3D
objects.
Apple also announced an all-new iTunes U app giving educators and
students everything they need on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to
teach and take entire courses. With the new iTunes U app, students using
iPads have access to the world’s largest catalog of free educational
content, along with over 20,000 education apps at their fingertips and
hundreds of thousands of books in the iBookstore that can be used in
their school curriculum, such as novels for English or Social Studies.
The iTunes U app is available today as a free download from the App
Store.
iBooks
textbooks offer iPad users fullscreen textbooks with interactive
animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much
more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don't weigh down a
backpack and never have to be returned. Leading education services
companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson
will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore with most priced at
$14.99 or less, and with the new iBooks Author, a free authoring tool
available today, anyone with a Mac can create stunning iBooks textbooks.
