Computer and software firm Apple, Inc., US, has announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users full-screen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos and easy navigation. According to the company, iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don't weigh down a backpack and never have to be returned.
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. The new iBooks Author, a free authoring tool, allows anyone with a Mac to create iBooks textbooks.
The new iBooks 2 app is currently available as a free download from the App Store. With support for new features including full-screen 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 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, says Apple.
iBooks Author is also available as a free download from the Mac App Store and lets anyone with a Mac create 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 are said to feature a wide variety of page layouts.
Apple also announced the 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 catalogue 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.
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