Apple unveils iBook one-two training event in New York, the company focuses on improving the American education system.
Social Marketing Phil Schiller announced two new initiatives that aim to help students better learn both. First, Apple will easily worn, tedious manuals with new textbooks with interactive digital multi-touch capabilities, video, graphics and built-in quizzes and critic, a “re-invent instant feedback again. ‘Apple will provide new materials with a new” handbook “in the category offer the iBookstore.
The second initiative focuses on the creation of manuals Author iBooks that can create authors, digital textbooks in a few minutes. The function will be free, and is today on Mac App Store.
Printed manuals are often expensive, but the ability to create interactive books will quickly and efficiently to lower prices for schools, teachers and students likely to result. Apple has teamed up with Pearson, The McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to provide school books from $ 15.
Other partners include DK Publishing, maker of popular children’s books and travel, and the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
The iBook second Communication the increase in reports of success with Amazon Self-Publishing. The online retailer has to pay 295 000 electronic books in December of last year, many self-published authors, the Kindle publishing feature used directly. Some authors reported income up to $ 8,000, and with rates so high, self-publishing seems to be a viable option for the future.
The textbook market, which is traditionally an important source of revenue for traditional publishers is breaking new ground in the immediate processing and Apple wants to get their hands on the ground floor. There are countless educational opportunities for the average and Apple used their best on the market to a whole new audience that spends reliable.
Apple is expanding its already booming business in a whole new industry with innovative technology and reasonable prices, the company is fishing for the next big name in the educational material has become.