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iBooks 2 Brings Interactive Textbooks to the iPad (Videos)

January 21, 2012 by Nathan

iBooks 2 Textbooks

The big news this week was Apple taking a big step into the eduction sector by releasing a new updated version of iBooks that supports interactive digital textbooks on the iPad.

Apple also introduced iBooks Author, a new app for Mac for creating and publishing those fancy new digital textbooks, along with cookbooks, picture books, and other interactive books.

Apple released a dedicated app for iTunes U as well, a service for teachers and students to create and manage courses online for everything from lectures and assignments, to books and test. And now iTunes U gives users access to the world’s largest catalog of free educational material from top universities such as Cambridge, Duke, and Harvard. But the biggest thing with the iTunes U app is that college students can use it to take entire courses, and any K-12 school district can now offer full courses through the iTunes U app as well.

Apple aims to “reinvent the textbook” with the new iBooks 2 app, where textbooks generally sell for $14.99 or less and come upgrades that paper textbooks can’t offer, such as interactive 3D images and diagrams, embedded videos and audio, content updates, on-screen notes and highlights, dictionary, and more.

Apple has already partnered with the three biggest textbook publishers: Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, as well as DK and the E.O. Wilson Foundation.

Here are the links for the new apps:

iBooks 2

iBooks Author

iTunes U

iBooks 2: Textbooks for iPad

iBooks 2 Textbooks Review

Filed Under: Apple iPad Tagged With: etextbooks, ibooks

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  1. Bob DeLoyd says

    January 21, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    I downloaded the whole bunch onto my iPad and iPod Touch except for the Author. I sampled some of the new textbooks and found them easy to navigate. I wish this when I was ten instead of sixty; what a wonderful way to learn!

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