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Mar 7 2012

iBooks Author 1.1 Update Released by Apple

The latest version of the iBooks Author Application has been released by Apple, Inc.   iBooks Author is Apple’s home grown application which allows users to produce and publish text books for the iPad and to sell them in the iTunes Book Store.  Version 1.1 of the iBooks Author application includes

  • The iBooks Author Application has been enhanced to take advantage of the Retina Display on the New iPad
  • Includes a number of performance and stability improvements

You can download the iBooks Author application from the Mac App Store or from the Apple iBooks Author page at:

http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/

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Feb 3 2012

Jumsoft Releases Book Palette for iBooks Author

Jumsoft has released Book Palette, a package which adds 10 book templates to iBooks Author.  The package also allows you to change and modify the templates to give the effects that you need in your books.  It also allows you to save your modified templates, thus making it easier to create your documents with uniformity across all the documents.

This package is an absolute necessity for the user who is creating lots of materials and feels that Apple’s lot of templates is just a bit short in the style side of things.   The fonts used in the Jumsoft templates are clearer and create a much crisper look and feel to the books.

The package is a $2.99 USD download from the Mac App Store and installs on your machine as a separate app. You can download the package at:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-palette/id497704085?mt=12/

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Jan 24 2012

iBooks Author Downloads Over 600,000 in 5 Days

iBooks Author, the app which allows educators to produce their own textbooks, has pushed over 600,000 downloads in 5 days.  It was previously thought that this number was under 90,000, however Apple announce in this morning’s conference call that this plus a total of 3 million iTunes U downloads is pushing the education initiative along mightily.

The fact that iBooks Author only runs on Mac OS X Lion should also drive future Mac OS X sales or even machine sales as users come to grips with not being able to run the app unless they upgrade.

There have also been over 700 million downloads of iTunes U related materials thus far and that number is expected to grow exponentially as iTunes U is adopted by more and more universities.

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Jan 23 2012

Apple sells 350,000 Textbooks Since Launch

In the 5 days since the launch of the Textbooks section of the Apple Book Store, they have sold approximately 350,000 books according to Global Equities Research.  They also apparently gave away 90,000 plus copies of the iBooks Author software for textbook production.  If these numbers and trends continue, Apple could well have the largest book store sales in the world within a matter of weeks instead of the normal years that it took Amazon to get to the top.

There are no official numbers from Apple yet but if the textbook sales are extremely successful, it is highly likely that they will use the numbers as part of their presentation come time for release of the iPad 3.  That event is expected within the month, yet again, no official word of the event has been sent by Apple inc.

Source: Electronista

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