Apple’s New “Textbook Experience” through iBook2.

Where can you find a book that can provide you heavy-text articles and pictures with the ability to provide you 3D animated models within the said book? Of course, you won’t find this at your local library or book store. But with iBook 2, all of these are possible.

Apple recently unveiled iBook 2 at a press event held in Guggeinheim Museum at New York on Thursday January 19,2012. iBook 2, an appplication for Apple’s iPad, can be downloaded for free on the Apple App Store online.

So what will you get when you download iBook 2 to your iPad?

iBook 2 allows you to read various ebooks, and more. If the ebook you downloaded has images on it (say, dinosaurs for example in case you downloaded a dinosaur-themed book), you’ll be able to see this images in 3D or with movement. You can even annotate the parts that you want to annotate. Got something that caught your attention at page 41? Add a sticky on it.

Apple said that it initially partnered with various textbook makers like, Pearson, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt among others. The cost of the ebooks that you can download? $14.99 or less. Compare that to your $80 dead-tree book.

Take a look below for Apple iBook 2’s presentation over at Youtube.

You can read my other Posts below:

• March 15, 2010 -- CarloBlogg Online 3.0 is now online! (for the second time).
  Well this is it, CarloBlogg Online 3.0 is now online, but now under a new webhost. (Vertito Webhosting). If you will notice, a lot has changed here...
• May 20, 2011 -- May 21, 2011 – Judgment Day?
  Yes, judgment day, as in "end of the world" kind of day, where the earth will experience numerous earthquakes and destruction that is meant for human ...
• September 8, 2010 -- Sony Ericsson Aspen – Windows Phone with a Greenheart.
  [ad#ad-on-post-large-rec-blue] Being a self-confessed "Sony Ericsson fanboy", I always make preference with Sony Ericsson products/ phones compared w...
• May 27, 2011 -- Heat vs. Mavs on NBA 2011 Finals!
  [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="331" caption="Image source: http://ratedej.deviantart.com."][/caption] [ad#ad-on-post-large-rec-blue] And ...
• April 30, 2010 -- UFC 113: Machida vs. Shogun 2. Who’s your bet?
  Admit it, you watched UFC 112-Invincible and you were disappointed. The what was supposed to be "action-packed" mixed martial arts event ended with a ...