News headlines

• Apple 'shifts 350,000 textbooks in first three days'
  

  Report claims 90,000 downloads of iBooks Author too

• Opinion: Holding out for an ePub hero
  

  I let myself get swept up by the wave of e-publishing rumours in the days leading up to Apple’s education-themed announcement

• Opinion: Apple's textbook plan feels like a blast from the past
  

  I've heard it all before

• Opinion: Why iBooks Author is a big deal for publishers
  

  Never before has an announcement about textbooks been the subject of so much conversation

• Analysis: Apple's e-textbook push earns mixed grades
  

  'Every time Apple enters a market, that market gets attention'

• Hands on with iBooks Author
  

  Effortless to use, but iPad-only

• Apple's e-textbook gambit just 'a 70% solution,' says analyst
  

  iBooks 2, iBooks Author have 'enormous' potential, but it's very long term

• Watch Apple's education event video
  

  Full video of the announcement in New York now available

• Apple unveils iTunes U app
  

  Lets students and teachers to manage course material for classes on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch

• iBooks Author offers free e-textbook creation
  

  Free Mac app is designed to let authors and publishers easily create multimedia-rich e-textbooks

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Blogs

>> Wed, 25 Jan 2012

Simon Jary - It’s T time for Apple

By Simon Jary

Tangerine   Apple is usually very particular about its colours, favouring a strict monochromatic policy ruled with an iron – or more likely a brushed aluminium – fist. From 1984 to 1990 just about every Apple product (except for its lurid logo) had to conform to the Snow White design language, which pinpointed exactly the correct tone of white or near beige the casing should be in. This was all down to Steve Jobs’ severe notion of perfect aesthetic beauty.

>> Thu, 19 Jan 2012

Andy Ihnatko - Photographic evidence

By Andy Ihnatko

I love this idea. A case that makes your iPhone look like an old-timey camera? That's an old gag. The Gizmon iCA (http://gizmon.com/) is an iPhone case that makes your phone work like an old-timey camera.

>> Tue, 10 Jan 2012

Jason Snell - The iPhone: Five years later...

By Jason Snell

Five years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage at Macworld Expo and unveiled the iPhone.

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