Very Impressive Live Coverage of Apple Event from The Verge (each post with an image).
New: iBooks 2 for Education (iPad) What’s New With Books 2 App? (via the App Store) Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPadiBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videosTap to dive into images with interactive captions, rotate 3D objects, swipe through image galleries, watch videos in full screen, and moreUse a finger as a highlighter when swiping over text in a textbootTake advantage of Study Cards to help you memorize important highlights, notes, and glossary termsTap glossary terms to see definitions of key topics and concepts without leaving the pageThe iBookstore offers textbooks on Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Physics from McGraw-Hill and Pearson.These textbooks are currently available to customers in the United States. Textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are coming soon.
Fast Facts
A New Category “Textbooks” Now the iBooks Bookstore. Books cost $14.99 or less (As of today, there are only seven textbooks for $14.99 each as well as free download of Life on Earth.“The books range in size from about 750MB to nearly 3GB for the Biology textbook — a full set would take up most of a 16GB iPad’s storage.” (via The Verge)Apple has been working with Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, E.O. Wilson, Biodiversity Foundation, and DK Publishing
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