Some features of Apple iBooks2:
- A new section for textbooks
- You can purchase, download, redownload
- 'My Notes' helps create study cards easily
- Swipe your finger to highlight sections of text
- Real-time glossary definitions
- Easy integration with Word documents
- Drop images onto pages, and text re-formats automatically
"Authors are going to love to use iBooks Create to create not only textbooks, but any kind of book."
"The iBooks 2 is an application that you download from the App Store to your iPad, and it's free."
"If you can write code in Javascript and HTML, basically you can create your own completely custom widgets."
"iBooks Author has the world's best glossary creation tool." - just highlight a word, click a button, and it's added..."If you've ever been involved in any kind of e-book creation project before you know this is a total miracle in terms of time savings."
"So that's iBooks Author. It is the most advanced, most powerful and yet most fun interactive authoring tool yet created."
About pricing -- "We wanted to make sure we could get this into the hands of not only every publisher and every author, but even every teacher..."
About pricing -- iBooks Author is free, and available today in the App store.
"You're going to see textbooks about every subject for every grade level and every student, but we wanted to get started early..."
High school text books will be priced at a significant discount -- $14.99 or less
About publishing partners -- "I can't overemphasize the importance of these partners working with us."
"There is no reason to assume today that kids need to use the same tools they used in 1950. To do so is to prepare them for a world that's already passed."
"You can do things you just can't do with a static textbook. Taking notes is one of the key ways students learn..."
"Up to now, making interactive books for iPad has been difficult, so we wanted to make it easier. This meant so much to us we had to make a way to do it. So we invented iBooks Author."
The iBooks Author app is free, but Apple will make a lot of money from this venture -- just think of all those iPad sales...
"That is reinventing the textbook, and that's the first thing we wanted to tell you about today."
"iTunes U lets colleges and universities around the world deliver content... around the world to anyone using an iPhone, iPod touch or an iPad."
It's already the world's number one catalog for educational content. 700 million downloads since it launched four years ago. Primarily used for delivering lectures.
"We want to let teachers do a lot more. We want to create full online courses."
Introducing a brand new iTunes U plus a dedicated app.
"It lets teachers and students do everything they need right on their iPad."
Phil Schiller presents two new initiatives at the Apple Education Event in NYC. First is iBooks 2. #Apple #ipadby logicoder via twitter 1/19/2012 3:10:00 PM
Presentation so far: hard hitting, depressing stats about state of US education. Apple: "we want to help"by core77 via twitter 1/19/2012 3:11:57 PM
Apple has announced iBooks 2. Story on the site in a few.by TheAppZone via twitter 1/19/2012 3:14:48 PM
Some background reading on what Apple's education initiatives could mean: www.globalnews.ca
What Apple has done is a major breakthrough for education. Now the schools and teachers have to do their part.by Michael Gartenberg via twitter 1/19/2012 3:17:42 PM
"Apple to reinvent __________."
Apple's Big Apple Announcement: "Study cards from notes: very smart and from current interactive ebooks."by MeriannaNeely via twitter 1/19/2012 3:25:15 PM
Not surprisingly Apple is invoking "That's cool!" reactions...about textbooks. All @Mercersburg students will have iPads next year! #iPadby mdschindler via twitter 1/19/2012 3:26:32 PM
Apple turned to many partners to make it great, he says. Pearson, McGraw Hill Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. #apple #edtechby PhilKomarny via twitter 1/19/2012 3:34:26 PM
Cool news out of the Apple event this morning. Textbooks may actually come out of the dark ages. #hopefulby jcmcintyre via twitter 1/19/2012 3:37:57 PM
In the US education system, does the cost of textbooks in highschool fall on students or does the school provide? #Apple #iBooksby Seguinn via twitter 1/19/2012 3:41:22 PM
Following the Apple education event is making me want to make a career change into the interactive textbook space.by NateUT via twitter 1/19/2012 3:43:00 PM
Apple’s new iBook textbooks start at $14.99 or less from partners Pearson, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcour...by TheiTeckHq via twitter edited by Heather Loney 1/19/2012 3:44:15 PM
Once again, if you want to play in Apple's sandbox, you must use only their tools. iBooks Author only avail for Mac OS X.by geekinchief via twitter 1/19/2012 3:45:43 PM
There's something else to announce. They're helping teachers "reinvent the curriculum." This will be through iTunes U. #appleby lilibeck via twitter 1/19/2012 3:49:49 PM
New iTunes U app to "let teachers do more"--make classes, a syllabus etc. #appleby Kiteaton via twitter 1/19/2012 3:50:22 PM