Apple wants students to stop lugging around a backpack full of textbooks and to move on to the iPad instead.
On Thursday, the company introduced three pieces of free software that revolve around education. The Album was released 2 new versions of iBooks, of an electronic Bookstore, where students can now download books; the author, a Macintosh program for iBooks to make books and other books; and iTunes U, an application for the instructor to create a digital curriculum and share course materials to students.
Digital books made for iBooks can display interactive diagrams, audio and video. IBooks App authors include templates that publishers and authors can customize.
Apple says HIGH SCHOOL electronic book publishing partners, including the original Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will cost $ 15 or less. It is much cheaper than print books, some of which can cost more than $ 100.