Tag: ibooks

Apple Takes The Golden Snitch With Potter Exclusives. 

I am a huge iBooks fan, I think that Apple’s always had a better vision for what eBooks could be. However, it’s mostly been stuck...
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News Round Up 7/15: Old OS’s Don’t Die, UK Apple Pay, iBook Author, More Flash Exploits, Comic Con Trailers

You Released An Update For WHAT? When an OS gets an update 22 years after its release, you’re right to assume that it’s some weird...
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Apple Announces New Apple Store Summer Camps For Your iChild

Apple has reintroduced its free Apple Store summer camps for children 8-12. These free camps will be offered in the United States, United Kingdom, The...
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Apple Brings iBooks Textbooks And iTunes U Course Manager To Many New Countries

Most people agree that the iPad is a great and interactive way to view school textbooks. Well, now more people can be swayed, as the...
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Judge Appoints A Monitor To Watch Apple’s iBook Store

A US judge has appointed Michael Bromwich to keep Apple’s iBook Store in check with antitrust laws for the next two years. Basically, Apple just...
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Book Publishers Notifying iTunes Book Buyers Who Are Eligible For Settlement Checks

Remember that whole price fixing scandal trial that involved Apple and several book publishers? Well while Apple ended up losing in court, the book publishers...
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Move Notes And Highlights From iBooks To Evernote Or PDF With Digested For Mac

Exporting highlights from iBooks isn’t exactly something that comes natively with the application, but there is Digested. A free app that takes the notes and...
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Don’t Like Reading Bedtime Stories To Your Kids? Have Siri Do It For You

If you’re not so keen on reading bedtime stories to your children, you can always have Siri do it for you. After all, she is...
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Just How Big Is The iBook Market Anyway?

No, we’re not talking notebook computers, although that’s exactly the first thing that crossed my mind when reading Horace Dediu’s article Measuring the iBook market....
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Apple Granted Page-Turn, Smart Case Patent

Apple was just granted a patent for its page-turn animation, which is present in the iBooks application. This animation replicates the page-turn of an actual...
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Apple Introduces Phone Support For iBook Publishers

Having trouble with iTunes Connect? Well, up to this point, you’ve been pretty much out of luck. Documentation is lacking, support over web form is...
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Report: Apple To Launch iBooks In Brazil

As reported by Brazilian website Veja, Apple is on the verge of launching iBooks in the Brazilian market in the month of April. Apple has...
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Update: Apple, publishers face potential lawsuits from Justice Department

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple and five U.S. publishers are under fire from the Justice Department over alleged collusion over the prices of...
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Marvel graphic novels now available on iBookstore

Do you love Marvel Comics? If so, I have some fantastic news for you. Marvel has officially announced that it has released its graphic novels on...
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iBooks Author updates to 1.0.1, EULA less onerous

After much complaining in the community about Apple’s end user license agreement for iBooks Author, Apple has pushed a new update that clarifies the restrictions....
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Apple sees 350,000 textbooks downloaded in the days after the iBooks 2 launch

Three days after Apple launched iBooks 2 with textbook support, an estimated 350,000 textbooks have been downloaded. That, my friends, is pretty impressive if the...
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Students innovate the digital page flip, blow iBooks out of the water

Page flips elicited oohs and ahhs from the crowd when iBooks was released for the iPad. Actually, it still kind of does. However, that doesn’t...
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First Look: iBooks 2.0, and the example textbook

So, Apple announced iBooks 2 today, and with that came a bunch of improvements for textbooks. We want to show off some of the benefits...
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