Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalize the U.S. education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad. During the event, Apple also introduced tools to craft digital textbooks and demonstrated how authors and even teachers can create books for students.
Apple's new iBooks 2 app is demonstrated for the media on an iPad at an event in the Guggenheim Museum. iBooks 2 is a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks. The company also announced iBook Author, an application to create digital textbooks, and iTunes U, an educational app for students and teachers.
Apple's new iBooks 2 app is demonstrated for the media on an iPad at an event in the Guggenheim Museum. iBooks 2 is a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks. The company also announced iBook Author, an application to create digital textbooks, and iTunes U, an educational app for students and teachers.
A man shows an example of an iBook textbook on an iPad after a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York.
Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, speaks about Apple's plan to "reinvent" textbooks at an event at the Guggenheim Museum.
Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, speaks about Apple's plan to "reinvent" textbooks at an event at the Guggenheim Museum. Apple announced iBooks 2, a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks. The company also announced iBook Author, an application to create digital textbooks, and iTunes U, an educational app for students and teachers
Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, speaks about Apple's plan to "reinvent" textbooks at an event at the Guggenheim Museum. Apple announced iBooks 2, a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks. The company also announced iBook Author, an application to create digital textbooks, and iTunes U, an educational app for students and teachers.
Apple's new iBooks 2 app is demonstrated for the media on an iPad at an event in the Guggenheim Museum January 19, 2012 in New York City. iBooks 2 is a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks.
Apple's new iBooks 2 app is demonstrated for the media on an iPad at an event in the Guggenheim Museum January 19, 2012 in New York City. iBooks 2 is a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks
Apple's new iBooks 2 app is demonstrated for the media on an iPad at an event in the Guggenheim Museum January 19, 2012 in New York City. iBooks 2 is a new free app featuring iPad interactive textbooks
Apple Marketing chief Phil Schiller speaks during a news conference introducing a digital textbook service in New York January 19, 2012.