Tag: iBooks

The wildly popular novel series, Harry Potter is now available on the iTunes Book Store.  The entire series of the J.K. Rowling penned books are available.  Each book is a fully enhanced version of the Harry Potter books specifically created for iBooks and can be purchased on the Harry Potter page at: https://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?path=HarryPotter

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…

Apple has updated iBooks Author, updating the End User License Agreement, getting even more specific about what can or cannot be sold when producing content with the application.  In the original EULA, Apple had said that “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.”…

Apple has released an update for iBooks 2.  The update, version 2.0.1 is intended to address an issue with Textbooks not opening within the program.   The update is now in the iTunes App Store and is a free download.   To download the update, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8

T. C. Lim has been working on a book about Pascal programming for the Apple II gs for the past several weeks, releasing preliminary versions along the way.  The book includes a number of programs his kids have developed for the Apple IIgs in Pascal, Orca Pascal, and GSoft BASIC. The book was produced with iBooks Author and is the first Apple ][ series related book to be produced specifically for iBooks 2.0.  T.C. has announced the immediate availability of…

The book that has created the most buzz lately is Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky.  The book delves into the inner workings of Apple, Inc. and how they manage to maintain their competitive edge with their shroud of secrecy.  Talked about over the past several weeks by many in the media, the long awaited book is now available in the iTunes Store To Download the book in iTunes, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/inside-apple/id444015286?mt=11

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…

This week, Apple shook up the education and textbook world with the introduction of iBooks 2.0, iTunesU for k-12 and of course their now ever so popular iBooks Author.  Many educators we have talked to seemed enthusiastic about the possibilities presented with the new application, however, Apple has a caveat in the End User Licensing Agreement which prevents users of iBooks Author from selling books created with the package anywhere else other than Apple’s iBook Store.  While PDF’s exported from…

This morning, Apple announced their new initiative to make education one of their highest priorities.  This announcement has not really changed their stance on the subject of education, but the way in which they did it deserves merit. The first thing that Apple did is to eliminate the physical books and the cutting down of trees to print those books.  This alone will save Billions of dollars each year and definitely help save the forests that are so important to…