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Apple announces new version of iBooks Author

Eric Abent — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:58:58 +0000

Apple has announced a brand new version of iBooks Author, and there’s a few very important things to note. Starting today, iBooks Author comes with a bunch of new Apple templates, making textbook creation even easier. Publishers can also use their own fonts right there in their digital books, which should do something to give

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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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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 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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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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