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Apple updates iBooks Author EULA terms to address content ownership concerns

Rue Liu — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:31:36 +0000

Apple today updated its new e-book publishing app, iBooks Author, to version 1.0.1, but the only change was in the End User License Agreement. The update clarifies a controversial portion of the EULA that suggested any content created by the app could only be sold and distributed through Apple’s iBookstore if it were to be

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350,000 iBooks textbooks downloaded in three days

Chris Davies — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:38:58 +0000

Apple’s iBooks 2 digital textbook launch last week may not have convinced everyone that the classroom is the best place for the iPad, but over 350,000 downloads of textbooks in the first three days of availability suggests there’s big demand for learning on the iOS slate. The figures were tracked by Global Equities Research’s proprietary monitoring system, AllThingsD reports, while downloads

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New iPad Retina Display looking more likely from iBooks 2 icons

Chris Davies — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:28:09 +0000

Further evidence of a next-gen iPad with a 2048 x 1536 “Retina Display” has been unearthed, this time from iconography and graphics included in Apple’s new iBooks 2 app released yesterday. A new bookmark icon in the refreshed app – labeled “iPadx2″ – was spotted after some judicious digging by MacRumors and devs Steve Troughton-Smith and Grant Paul,

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Apple Education Event video now online

Chris Davies — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:18:42 +0000

Apple put the cat among the publishing pigeons yesterday at its education-themed event, with the launch of iBooks 2 with textbooks, iBooks Author to create interactive digital books, and iTunes U for full, free university and K-12 courses. Almost a million of you joined SlashGear yesterday for our Apple event liveblog; now the whole thing

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iBooks Author Hands-on

Vincent Nguyen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:43:06 +0000

It’s taken a special kind of ebook to make headlines over the past year or so: anyone can throw together a basic document, but a rarified breed of immersive, interactive app/ebook hybrids has also developed. Often seen targeting children or delivering iPad versions of print magazines, they’ve invariably taken big money and plenty of time.

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iBooks 2 Hands-On

Vincent Nguyen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:55:23 +0000

Apple’s original iBooks app tried to do to ebooks what iTunes has done for music; now, with iBooks 2, Apple is throwing textbooks into the mix. We’ve just headed out from the Apple keynote in NYC this morning to spend some time with the new ebook app, and on one level it’s more of the

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iBooks Author is here

Chris Davies — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:18:56 +0000

Apple has only just finished announcing iBooks Author, its ultra-simple drag & drop interactive book creation tool, and already it’s up for download. A 136MB OS X application, you can download iBooks Author through the Mac App Store [iTunes link] and be creating ebooks in minutes. Although Apple’s focus today was on education, the scope

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iTunes U app released for iPad, teachers rejoice

Chris Burns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:14:47 +0000

Teacher will soon be able to “do everything on their iPad” as Apple announced this week at their education-based event this week, as iTunes U brings forth a fully interactive set of tools that any teacher, professor, or otherwise leader can use. The user interface is very similar to what iBooks has to offer, this

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Apple iBooks Textbooks set at stunning $14.99 or less

Chris Burns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:55:50 +0000

The folks at Apple have this week shown off their new Textbooks category in their iPad and iPhone-based iBookstore, showing how interactive teaching can be done in a brand new way and for a much less expensive price: $14.99 or less. That’s the price the books in this new section of the store will cost,

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iBooks Author revealed, free to download

Chris Burns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:41:20 +0000

A brand new application was revealed this week at the Apple education event by the name of iBooks Author, this app brought on aside the iBooks 2 app update and the addition of interactive Textbooks to the fold. This event has played host to a set of updates to the iPad-based world of books, the

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iBooks 2 revealed with Textbooks

Chris Burns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:28:07 +0000

Building on the very central subject of the education event in NYC this week in the iPad, Apple spoke of the second generation of iBooks, that being iBooks 2. This application will tie Apple’s already portable, durable, interactive, searchable, and current iPad to the “great content” of the textbook, the textbook having none of the

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iPad at the head of Apple’s Education event in NYC

Chris Burns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:13:20 +0000

Apple held an event this week promising no less than an education-heavy set of announcements, Phil Schiller starting the event off right with a series of affirmations that Apple has always been dedicated to helping students learn. Putting the same passion and energy into every product Apple makes is the same that they’ve done for

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