Apple’s iBooks 3.0 update just went out via the App Store, bringing the features it demoed on stage at the special Apple event earlier today. That brings iCloud books to the app’s virtual bookshelf (so you can view past purchases available for download easily, just like how Amazon’s Kindle handles things), and vertical scrolling as a new reading paradigm.
Also new to the update is the ability to receive free updates to existing books, with chapter additions, corrections and more. That makes books living documents, so that users can have stuff kept current, and publishers can push updates live as they happen. This is aimed primarily at the education market, but it’ll be interesting to see what other publishers take advantage and how it changes consumer titles.
Vertical scrolling is also great. Books with pages? That’s so physical world. Why are we clinging to dead paradigms? To the future!
Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook Air) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod, the...
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