Download iTunes 10.5.3 With Sync for iBooks 2

Apple has recently concluded a media event in New York, in which they introduced some great new tools for the future of education. iBooks 2 allows distribution of interactive textbooks. iBooks Author for Mac OS X lets you create your own interactive books for iBooks 2. iTunes U is a new app that offers full [...]

iTunes U Brings Entire Courses To the iPad

The classroom has gone digital with iTunes U. Following the announcement of iBooks 2 and iBooks Author, Apple has declared that iTunes U is now in app format. The life of a teacher can be pretty tough. With creating lesson plans, following curriculum, putting together homework, testing and getting information to a class, there’s a [...]

iBooks Author For OS X Lets You Create Your Own Textbooks

Apple has unleashed a new tool aimed at creating those awesome interactive textbooks we saw in the iBooks 2 announcement. Dubbed iBooks Author, this new application is available for Mac OS X, and is now available for download from the Mac App Store. iBooks author allows the creation of virtual books by anyone. It’s aimed, [...]

Apple Sends Invites To Educational Event in New York On January 19th

Just a week ago, hints that a small-scale media event hosted by Apple started hitting the web. Now, official invitations have begun rolling out, teasing an education announcement. The invitation is, like all Apple announcements, vague with the details concerning the announcement. We’ll be sure to check this event out on January 19th, at 10 [...]

Four Lawsuits Filed Against Apple’s “eBook Conspiracy”

In an interview with Mossberg, in January 2010 Steve Jobs endorsed his $14.99 eBook pricing against Amazon’s $9.99 price for kindle books: Mossberg: Why should [a consumer] buy a book for $14.99 on your device when she can buy one for $9.99 from Amazon or Barnes & Noble? Jobs: That won’t be the case. Mossberg: [...]

An Apple a Day: iPhone 5 World Phone, iBooks and the White iPhone 4

Apple’s been busy on the iTunes and iBooks front today, the white iPhone 4 has made an appearance, and there’s some more rumors surrounding the iPhone 5.  Let’s dig in! iPhone 5 World Phone The iPhone 5 is going to be world phone! Well, most probably. Owaeis has a run down on the news here. [...]

iPhone OS 4: iBooks Comes to iPhone And iPod Touch

Kindle is already screwed up with the iBooks for the iPad. Now we have iBooks on the iPhone and iPod touch too. No, this time Steve didn’t slap anyone. You can purchase books from the iBookstore. Reading the books on the tiny little iPhone screen might not be a pleasure as it is on the [...]

Steve Jobs Laughs At Himself By Launching iBooks

Remember what Steve Jobs had said about Kindle? In an interview soon after Kindle’s launch, Steve Jobs told NYT that Kindle would be a great failure: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book [...]

Didn’t You Notice? Steve Jobs Slapped McGraw Hill Right In Front Of You!

Remember the confirmation of Apple tablet by McGraw Hill CEO the day before the official announcement? Terry McGraw, CEO McGraw Hill had told CNBC: Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system [...]