Company announces today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

"Education is deep in our DNA, and it has been since the very beginning." With those words, Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller kicked off the company's invitation-only ...

Apple today revealed iBooks 2, which expands its bookmaking app and App Store to include textbooks. The effort will include tools built to make it easier to create digital textbooks and provide ...

Apple has announced some changes to the iBookstore today in an iTunes Connect letter to content publishers. Like the App Store, promo codes for iBooks can now be offered to iTunes users. Screenshots ...

While Apple's free new iBooks Author publishing app generates what appears to be a modified EPUB format, Apple's licensing terms for the app restrict commercial distribution of the ebooks it creates ...

I should know better than to look at a new Apple creation and call it an outright failure. The company’s batting average is too high lately. There’s not a lot of room for nay-saying. Still, I think a ...

One of the first announcements that Steve Jobs made during his WWDC keynote today was about the iBooks on the iPad. Jobs announced that 5 million books had been downloaded to the over 2 million iPads ...

Apple Computer on Wednesday turned up the performance of its iBook portable computers and turned down the prices on its eMac desktops. The company updated its iBook by adding the PowerPC G4 processor, ...

What the iPod was to listening to music, Apple hopes to make the iPad to reading books. The company’s much touted iBooks software landed in the iTunes Store on Friday, one day ahead of the iPad’s ...