Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author in NYC today
Apple is trying to reinvent the text book and they’ve signed up some heavy-hitting publishing houses to start. iBooks 2 is a free app you’ll need to download to buy the books.
Pearson, McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publish 90 percent of all textbooks sold and they’re going to start offering their books on the iPad at prices of $14.99 or less.
Apple also showed off iBooks Author, which is a full-featured program to write and layout iBooks.
iBooks 2 is available today with a handful of titles from each publisher.
