Reinventing Textbooks Apple Unveils Ibooks 2 A Brand New Textbook Experience For Ipad
Apple executives took the stage at its education event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City this morning, where the company unveiled two education initiatives: Reinventing Textbooks with “iBooks 2” and “iBooks Author,” an e-book authoring tool for Mac. As expected, Vice President of Productivity Software and iWork Roger Rosner took the stage immediately following the announcement to demo iBooks 2. Rosner launched a biology textbook starting with a dramatic introduction video and continued to show off the interactive textbook’s features including 3D models, improved index with page number search, index links back into the book, and the ability to pinch to get to the Table of Contents....