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Archive for January, 2012
Apple Opening Store-Within-A-Store Inside London’s Harrods Department Store? [Mac Blog]
Apple is planning to open a new store-within-a-store concept at the legendary Harrods department store on Brompton Road in London, according to 9to5Mac.
Harrods boasts more than 1 million square feet of selling space across 330 departments — plen…
Apple Posts Video of iBooks and iTunes U Media Event
Following today’s media event that saw the introduction of iBooks 2 with new iPad digital textbooks alongside expanded iTunes U functionality, Apple has now posted video of the event to its site. The video is also available as a podcast video downlo…
New iBooks ‘Not Technically’ in ePub Format [iOS Blog]
TechCrunch summarizes notes from today’s media event. Of interest, they seem to reveal that Apple’s interactive textbook format is not quite the official ePub 3 spec:Books are not technically in the EPUB format, but they borrow from it (likely EPUB…
iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99, Apple Takes 30%, iBooks-Exclusive [iOS Blog]
Engadget highlights the economics of publishing iBooks Textbooks to the iBookstore, noting that paid downloads follow Apple’s traditional App Store and iBookstore model where the company takes a 30% cut of the purchase price of each book. Authors are …
Some iPad Textbooks Weigh In Above Apple’s 2GB Book Size Limit [iOS Blog]
Cult of Mac took a look at the size of the digital textbooks available on iBooks after today’s education-focused media event. File sizes range from Pearson’s 793MB Environmental Science up to a hefty 2.77GB for Biology.
- Pearson’s Environmental…
Hands-On Video With Apple’s Digital Textbooks
Engadget has posted a hands-on video of the iPad’s interactive digital textbooks in the press demo section of Apple’s education-focused media event today, and they were impressed:
Interacting with the books is a generally intuitive combination of tapp…
iTunes U for iPad Retools the Learning Experience
In the second half of Apple’s education-focused media event today, the company turned its attention to iTunes U, the company’s free educational podcast section in the iTunes Store. Eddy Cue took the stage to announce that over 1,000 universities are cu…
Apple Launches iBooks 2 with Interactive Textbooks
At its education-focused media event today, Apple introduced iBooks 2, an updated version of the company’s e-book software for iOS devices. The update comes as part of a push into interactive digital textbooks in partnership with a number of major pub…
‘iBooks Author’ eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available
Today, during their education press event, Apple announced the availability of the iBooks Author App that allows users to create interactive iBooks on their Mac.Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books,…
Live Coverage of Apple’s Education-Focused Media Event
Apple today is holding its education-focused media event where it is widely expected to introduce a new push into digital textbooks. The event is scheduled to kick off at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City at 10:00 AM Eastern / 7:00 Pacific.
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