Apple has uploaded today’s textbook video trailer to its YouTube channel. This is the same video that appears on Apple’s website but you can now watch it from their official channel in full 1080P. Earlier today Apple announced iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U, and a new partnership with publishers at its New York City Education Media Event (which is now available for viewing online).

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Peter Kafka over at AllThingsD was able to interview McGraw-Hill CEO, Terry McGraw and ask him questions about the economics of selling $15 digital textbooks versus $75 paper copies.

What is the plan behind this massive discount and what makes them okay with it? The answer is volume in sales, notes McGraw. Normally the publisher sells $75 textbooks that schools keep for five years. The new model would have … Read More

Apple has posted a support document for iBooks Author, a publication and distribution FAQ. Some answers to key questions are answered here.

iBooks Author is only available on the the Mac, and users will be able to export books to allow others to download for free.

How can I distribute my work?

You can publish your book to the iTunes Bookstore; you must choose to sell your book or … Read More

Update 1: …and it looks like the Textbooks category is absent in Canada. It requires a US iTunes account to access.

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Today at Apple’s education event in New York City, the company announced what was previously rumoured: a massive change in the way we will use textbooks in education, as noted by Steve Jobs in his biography.

Phil Schiller was on stage to announce the update … Read More

Wrapsol has some of the clearest film protectors and I currently use them on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2. A new product they recently introduced at CES 2012 is the non-slip Grip Pad. This thin film sticks onto the back of your iPad (or any other device), and will allow the device to stay put when it’s resting on your legs or any other surface. Let’s take … Read More

With Apple’s education media event set to take place in New York tomorrow, last minute speculation and apparent leaks have made their way to to the web. Last night sources told Bloomberg Apple will debut tools to allow easy creation of digital textbooks, something we heard earlier from the WSJ.

At an event in New York tomorrow, Apple will announce a set of tools that make it easier to … Read More

@Planetbeing, one of the lead members of hackers ‘dream team’, who is working real hard on releasing an A5 jailbreak (iPhone 4S/iPad 2) as soon as possible, teased his twitter followers today by posting a photo showing iOS 5 exclusive jailbreak tweak ‘IntelliScreenX’ running on his iPad 2. He also said that it was a productive day for him as he successfully tested ‘IntelliScreenX’ on both iPhone 4S and … Read More

Update 1: Looks like the blog post has been removed.

Pod2g has been hard at work with his iOS hacking ‘dream team’, and previously noted the iPhone 4S jailbreak release was imminent. As for the iPad 2? He has just updated his blog with an image of Cydia’s start screen showing on a white iPad 2  (notice the front facing camera) under the title ‘iPad 2 5.0.1 untethered’. … Read More

With Spring ‘almost’ around the corner, expect further speculation about when the iPad 3 will be announced. Well, today Macotakara claims its sources have told them Apple is set to hold a media event possibly in February to debut the next iPad, with a launch to take place in March, almost a month later:

Here’s the Google translation:

Apple iPad does hold iOS 5.1 and 3 launch in Early February? ACCORDING … Read More

According to a new report by Digitimes, LG and Sharp, who have been finalized by Apple as suppliers of 2048 x 1536 resolution iPad 3 display panels, have increased shipments of such high-resolution panels. Total shipments of these new display panels, which began shipping in the fourth quarter of 2011, will exceed those of 1024 x 768 panels currently being used in the iPad 2 by Q2 of 2012. The report claims that … Read More