Apple announced iBooks 2 for iPad yesterday with the major new announcement of iBooks textbooks. iBooks textbooks are not simply digital versions of their paper back counterparts but they contain interactive photos, videos, navigation, diagrams and so much more. This is a major step by Apple towards helping out students. Companies such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson will be offering educational titles in the iBookstore and most books will be priced at $14.99 or less as compared to the paperback versions which cost anywhere from $60 to $100.
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Get iBooks Like Page Animations On iPhone With PagePusher [Cydia]
Ryan Petrich, the developer behind acclaimed Cydia tweaks such as Display Out, SwitcherMod, Untrackerd and Action Menu brings yet another cool release for all jailbroken iPhones and iPods called PagePusher. The tweak adds an iBooks-like “page turning” transition when switching between application panels in iOS. This tweak however does perceivably slow down your device performance and having a system-wide page turning effect is rather annoying than it feels inside iBooks.
HOW TO: Easily add PDF’s to iBooks on your iPad or iPhone
One of the reasons to get an iPad is for eBooks. But some of us have large amounts of PDF’s that we would like to be able to read on the iPad, and iBooks is the answer. I will show you how to easily add PDF’s to iBooks for easy reading.
Apple releases iBooks 1.2 for iOS Devices with Collections, Print Support and More!
Apple has updated iBooks to version 1.2 with some major new features. You can now organize books and PDFs into personal Collections. This is a blessing for those with unorganized iBook Shelves. Fully illustrated books have also been added to the iBookstore ranging from children’s books to beautifully designed art books. Let’s see the Kindle do this one. Another expected feature is print support for PDF documents and notes in iBooks via AirPrint.
iBooks app updated with audio and video functionalities to version 1.1.1
In the later part of June, Amazon’s Kindle App was updated for iOS devices with audio and video support. Because of this we were expecting Apple to provide audio and video support for their iBooks App as well. Yesterday, Apple updated its iBooks app by releasing its version 1.1.1 as a universal update. It has support for embedded audio and video just like Kindle app.
Fix iBooks Not Working on iPhone 3G/iPod Touch with iOS 4 after redsn0w Jailbreak
A lot of users would have noticed that iBooks wasn’t working properly on iPhone 3G and iPod Touch after jailbreaking with redsnow. The iPhone Dev Team identified the issue and released redsn0w 0.9.5b5-4. Since we already have the guides up on how to jailbreak iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G with redsn0w 0.9.5, we’ve updated the links and references of the redsn0w build.
iBooks App released for iPhone and iPod Touch [iOS 4 only]. New features added to iPad version too
iBooks app would also be available for iPhone and iPod touch
One of the most important and most liked features of the iPad is its iBooks app and most people were hoping that it would also be incorporated in iPhone and iPod touch [Just like the Kindle app for iPad which is also for the other two devices] Steve Jobs just revealed that in iPhone OS 4, iBooks would also be available for iPhone and iPod touch users.
iBooks App is now Available for U.S iPad App Store users
With just a day remaining for the launch of iPad, Apple has released the iBooks app for iPad on App Store. This iBooks app is free and only available for U.S. users. The app will include iBookStore where you would be able to download the latest books available as well as browse your bookshelf.