There are no wooden bookshelves in iBooks on the Mac. Instead iBooks sports clean grey rows of book covers. Your book collection is synced across all your devices via iCloud and you can buy books and read them on your Mac. While reading a book on a computer screen may not seem that natural, we imagine students will find it useful to be able to open up a number of books on screen. Apple showed a demo of copying and pasting text from an iBooks Author created textbook into a Pages document, something that we imagine many students will take advantage of. Apple assured us that this will not encourage plagiarism, the text can be copied across with source information for that all important bibliography, and a book can be set up in such a way that text cannot be copied at all. Read more OS X Maveric
