iBooks 2: Apple updates its e-reader software

Apple unveiled in New York City version 2.0 of its e-book app iBooks second During the development we have focused mainly on the presentation of interactive elements such as charts, photographs and videos. This will be done about electronic textbooks for the iPad, which can be controlled by Multi-Touch gestures.

In the new version of iBooks, users can tap to open with subtitles embedded images, 3D objects, rotate, flip through photo galleries and to view videos in full screen mode. The view changes, depending on the iPad automatically from portrait to landscape mode.

Text passages can now select two iBooks with simpler and provided with notes (Image: Apple).

Text will now simply marked by a finger touches it. The interactive textbooks to include glossary terms. The user types them in, he can show definitions for important terms and concepts without having to leave the currently open page must.

Moreover, it is possible to provide individual book pages with notes. These can then be combined together with selected text or glossary terms to virtual learning cards - with a theme on one side and the corresponding definitions on the other side.

Apple has already signed partnerships with the largest U.S. textbook publishers including Pearson, McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The company says that they iPad publish 90 percent of all textbooks in the United States. For the launch of two iBooks are iBooks Store in a new section with textbooks on the subjects of algebra, biology, chemistry, geometry and physics - but only in the U.S..

Created the interactive textbooks with iBooks in New York also introduced application Author. This is now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.

iBooks 2 itself can also be downloaded free from iTunes. It supports iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with IOS 4.2 or higher. The download is 36.9 MB.