Steve Jobs’ School House Dream Comes To Fruition But Not Big News For Stock
Steve Jobs had a dream of making traditional textbooks obsolete. Now Apple (AAPL) has promised to reinvent textbooks. Today Apple introduced iBooks 2. iBooks 2 can be purchased, starting today, from Apple’s iBooks store. iBooks 2 is rich in swiping and pinching gestures, animations and video. Apple is completing the package with iBooks Author, and a new iTunes U program. iTunes U allows teachers to create online courses and handouts. iBooks Author is a WYSIWYG app for writing interactive books. The app runs only on Mac. The app allows one button publishing of books to an iPad.