19/01/2012 |
Apple's education announcement event this morning focused on their efforts to reinvent textbooks on the iPad. As part of the launch of these efforts, today has seen the release of the new iBooks Author, a free Mac app to be used as an authoring / publishing tool for textbooks and books of all types, and of iBooks 2.
iBooks 2 is really the 2.0 version of iBooks - and it already features some of the shiny new textbooks for the iPad, 8 of them right now. These include Algebra 1, Geometry,...
Last week's Apple event was focused on education, and textbooks on the iPad were a major part of the presentation. A number of the new textbooks released on the day of the Apple event are targeted at students in high school and above, but there are a few new entries that look more targeted at the...
I followed Macworld's excellent liveblog coverage of Apple's 'Education Announcement' event this morning. For me, this was one of the most exciting Apple events I've ever tuned into. I got more and more excited as the event went on, because I feel like the things that were announced are going to ...