19.01.2012 16:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Apple launches iBooks 2 e-Textbook platform

We're here at Apple's education-flavored event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Phil Schiller has taken to the stage and announced that Apple's "reinventing the textbook" by launching iBooks 2. There are 1.5 million iPads currently in use in educational programs and 20,000 educational apps available for the platform, which prompted development of the new app. The new app resembles a book-stand where you can enter textbooks and paw through content, stopping to take a look at detailed 3D animated models of specific elements within. Roger Rosner said that "Clearly, no printed book can compete with this:" considering there are live-updated definitions for words as you select them. You can also read in

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