New Book Experience
- iBooks 2 App - awesome new reading/interactivity options
- iBook Author App (for the Mac) - easy to use tool for creating these new books (comes with templates)
- Both of these are free
Textbooks
- Textbook Store now in the iBooks Store (broken down by grade and subject)
- Books will be $14.99, owned forever, and continuously updated (may be re-downloaded from the cloud at any time)
- Pearson has two books available today
- McGraw Hill has five books available today
iTunes U
- iTunes U has a new app
- Features include the ability to create online courses
- Hundreds of online courses already available from Duke, Yale, Stanford, MIT and others
- K-12 Institutions can sign up as an institution for free starting today
Lots to think about!
The iBooks 2 App is an update to the existing iBooks app. All three new apps iBooks 2, iBook Author, and iTunes U are all available now!