Following last week's Apple Education event where iBooks and iBooks Author were introduced, there have been over 350,000 textbooks downloaded from iBooks. The numbers were extrapolated by Global Equities Research, which has a proprietary tracking system. iBooks Author, the free tool used to create … [Read more...]
Apple Event Later This Month, Rumored To Focus On Publishing and iBooks
January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
According to AllThingsD, Apple will announce an event to be scheduled for January and it will take place in NY city. The event is said to be important, but not a large scale event that would accompany an iPad 3 or Apple Television announcement. In fact, as per earlier reports, we don't expect either … [Read more...]
iBooks Updated, Offers Nighttime Reading Theme
December 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Apple has just released iBooks update version 1.5 offering a number of new features including a new nighttime reading theme that makes reading books in the dark easier on the eyes. Other improvements include: Full-screen layout let you focus on the words without distraction iBooks now … [Read more...]
How To Liberate Your E-Books from Stanza, Google, iBooks and More
November 28, 2011 by 2 Comments
If you're a bookworm like me, you've probably discovered that iPhone and iPad users are spoiled for choice for e-reading apps and marketplaces on iOS. Kindle, Kobo, Google Books and iBooks all offer up huge libraries, but they also have the irritating habit of locking you in to a proprietary reader. … [Read more...]
Check Out What You Can Do With An iBook
June 17, 2011 by 2 Comments
When some people want to create awesome interactive books, they go the route of a standalone app — but it turns out that many of the awesome features you can pack into an app can also be used within iBooks by using a combination of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. The demo above is for "KADATH, the … [Read more...]
iBooks and Find My iPhone Get Minor Updates
June 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Two of Apple's iOS apps have received minor updates with some interesting new functionality. Find My iPhone has been bumped to version 1.2, with better offline options: •When you are unable to locate a device because it is is offline, you will receive an email if the device comes online and is … [Read more...]
iTunes 10.3 Brings iBookstore To Your Desktop
June 7, 2011 by 1 Comment
Despite the majority of yesterday's keynote showing a push to bring desktop functionality to mobile devices, there was some push in the other direction. iTunes 10.3 brings a previously iOS only service to the Mac — iBookstore. Last night, Apple updated their iTunes website saying that version 10.3 … [Read more...]
Apple Puts Up iBooks, iMovie, And GarageBand For iPad Videos
March 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Apple has uploaded three videos for three of the major apps on the iPad: iBooks, iMovie and GarageBand. While iBooks isn't anything new, the other two apps were announced at the iPad 2 unveiling, and made quite a splash. If you weren't there for the presentation — and we certainly weren't — this … [Read more...]
iPad 2 and iOS 4.3, The Press Releases
March 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
If you're a masochist, here are the full press releases for both big announcements, as well as one about Random House for iBooks. They're after the break: … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs Appears On Stage In San Francisco
March 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Despite still being on sick leave, Steve Jobs appeared at today's event, saying "we've been working on this product for awhile, and I didn't want to miss it." As Apple often does, he started the event with some smaller announcements. iBooks: 100 million downloads Random House books will … [Read more...]
