At its ongoing Education Event, Apple has just announced the availability of iBooks 2 together with a new interactive experience in textbook reading. iBooks 2 is available now as a free download from the App Store, so you don’t have to search for “iBooks 2″ to get the app installed on your iPad. Just update your current installation and you can start using iBooks 2.
What’s good about iBooks 2? Among the new features listed on the app’s change log are as follow – multi-touch textbooks designed for iPad, iBooks textbooks with interactive features, diagrams, photos and videos, interactive captions, rotating 3D objects, swipe gestures on image galleries, the ability to watch videos in full screen, highlight text in a textbook using your finger, study card to help you memorize highlights, notes and glossary terms, and find out definitions of key topics and concepts.
To preview the textbook feature of iBooks 2, you can get sample copies from the iBookstore which include textbooks on Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Physics published by McGraw-Hill and Pearson.
If you’re an author and you want to publish your book via iBooks 2′s textbook feature, you can download the iBooks Author app for free from the Mac App Store.
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