Today Apple had their Education Event to show off their new update to iBooks and iTunes University
Apple wants to revolutionize school and reading, so today they released an update to iBooks 2.0, which includes textbooks for iPad and many more improvements
Apple also included iBook Author for authors to create their own books using a Mac, its free in the Mac App Store
Apple also today released iTunes U app for iOS, for those who have used Black Board, iTunes U comes in to possibly to replace it someday, Apple is planning on teachers to use iTunes U to do push notifcations to Students who have iPads for homework updates, a nice new feature possibly include reminders to do your homework, right now this is aimed at high school students and college campuses will be including this soon.
Apple has gotten McGraw, Houghton, Mifflin, and Harcourt on board to publish text books for courses
cheers to the future of schools and text book reading thanks apple
Also iTunes 10.5.3 is out
http://9to5mac.com/2...ience-for-ipad/