Apple is discontinuing two products you’ve probably forgotten about: iBooks Author and iTunes U. As of July 1st, iBooks Author will not be available to new users, and Apple plans to discontinue iTunes U at the end of 2021.Existing iBooks Author users... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2020-06-10 19:05:29 UTC ]
When iBooks Author, Apple’s multimedia ebook authoring tool, was unveiled in January, it was hailed for how easy it is to use and its ability to create rich, multimedia, and interactive educational content. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is capitalising on the forthcoming release of the first Hobbit film by putting out... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple CEO Tim Cook took to a San Jose theater stage today to unveil a new version of the company's literature-based digital storefront, iBooks. Cook says it integrates better with iCloud, allows for quote sharing on Facebook and Twitter, and has support for "over 40 languages." Beyond the app... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
In early January, Apple released iBooks Author, a groundbreaking drag-and-drop ebook authoring environment that promises to democratize the production of complex, structured books, notably including textbooks. But iBooks Author could also presage something else: the eclipse of open ebook standards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Inkling has a new tool for publishing complex ebooks, ideal for educational publishers seeking more than what iBooks Author allows. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher subscription terms? That's the eventual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple can improve education and empower authors to create ever-better digital books without limiting customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple’s iPad has fairly quickly become a great tool for the workplace and in education and the company’s latest bid to revolutionize the market is with ebooks. Ebooks themselves are nothing new, but the existence of touchscreen devices such as the iPad means that the opportunities available to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
While the launch of Apple’s iBooks 2, its new multimedia textbook format, and iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has produced to create them, may indeed “reinvent the textbook,” there are a lot of questions to be answered before it does. That doesn’t mean that Apple didn’t put on quite... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
iBooks Author is a free Mac app designed to let authors and publishers easily create multimedia-rich e-textbooks for the iBooks 2 app. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a private event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Thursday, Apple unveiled its multi-pronged approach for cracking the higher education market with iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The result is an environment for creating, distributing, and consuming learning materials that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]