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Apple unveils iBooks 2, a brand new textbook experience for iPad via
9to5Mac by Jordan Kahn on 1/19/12
Apple executives took the stage at its education event at the
Guggenheim museum in New York City this morning, where the company
unveiled two education initiatives. #1: Reinventing Textbooks with
iBooks 2 and #2: iBooks Author, an e-book authoring tool for Mac.
As expected, VP of Productivity Software and iWork Roger Rosner took
the stage immediately following the announcement to demo iBooks 2.
Rosner launched a biology textbook starting with a dramatic intro video
and continued to show off the features of the interactive textbook
including interactive 3D models, improved index with page number
search, index links back into the book, and the ability to pinch to get
to table of contents. Rosner also showed of how the textbooks have
different layouts depending on whether you are in landscape or portrait
mode.
To accompany the demo, Schiller announced that a new Textbook category
for the iBookstore that you can access here. iBooks 2.0 is available
for free on the App Store now. Apple has also updated their site with
an iBooks 2 tour. iBooks 2 is compatible with both iPhone and iPad, but
textbooks appear to only be available to iPad users currently.
Other features demoed by Rosner include interactive Q&A content for
students and teachers at the end of chapters, as well as highlighting
and note taking tools. Rosner also explains they take notes and
highlights a step further by instantly turning them into study cards.
"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."
So how do developers and publishers create these content rich
textbooks? Apple also unveiled a new creation tool today called iBooks
Author. Get the full story here. We also learned that high school
textbooks will be starting at $14.99 or less with a full list of
partners and books available today here. Full press release from Apple
below.
Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad
New iBooks Author Lets Anyone Create Stunning iBooks Textbooks
NEW YORK—January 19, 2012—Apple® today announced iBooks® 2 for iPad®,
featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that's
dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad
users gorgeous, 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 today 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.
*Some content is available only for iPad.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along
with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the
digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple
has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App
Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices
with iPad.
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