Everybody loves them some eBooks. Cramming a whole library in one device with easy access to yet more tomes is the kind of convenience that’s pushed the digital reading to the fore, but there are still drawbacks that you don’t get with a real book. Navigation is one such failing, but that could be set to change with a prototype technology making flicking through books and gesture-based page-turning possible and intuitive. Read more
Yesterday Apple unveiled its new iBooks 2 platform with an educational slant and the iBooks Author app to help publishers create stunning new digital textbooks. Now those textbook tools have been dissected, and some of the file info points to an iPad 3 with double the resolution of the current model. Read more
Apple has descended upon New York for its ‘Educational Announcement’ today, and in doing so has unveiled a brand new version of its digital books platform for the iPad: iBooks 2. Can Apple reinvent the textbook? Read more
The Steve Jobs biography released this week has stormed up the bestseller charts, both paper and digital, but a rather unexpected problem has affected some iBooks purchases of the in-depth bio by Walter Isaacson: glaring formatting errors with text and images, and ones that required Apple to email individuals advising them to delete and redownload the 656 page tome (at no extra charge).
Today is the day to explore books on the go with your iPad, iPod touch or iPhone. Apple has launched the iBookstore in the UK, bringing its vast library to iTunes. Your favorite books are just a finger swipe away.
With 24 categories to choose from, the iBookstore is one of the most comprehensive collection of reads on the net. Pick and choose from categories like crime & thrillers, sci-fi, sports, politics and even comics.
Apple iBooks includes a number of treasure troves of excellent free publications. If you’re planning on getting your head around iOS development in 2011, you can nab a fistful of Apple Developer Publications for free.
Search for “apple developer publications” on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and you’ll find the six books that are available right now. Let us know how you get on if you do start wading through the iOS developer guides, they’re not exactly light reading!
Apple has outed its end-of-the-year lists with the best iPhone apps and best iPad apps of 2010 listed with free, paid and top grossing app lists. Angry Birds dominates the field but there are other extremely successful franchises holding their own (Rock Band for instance) and the app that made the most cash this year? Apple holds that crown…
