Company announces today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook J.K. Rowling, Pottermore, and Apple released new enhanced editions of the Harry Potter novels into ...

Just under a year ago, Apple released new Mac and iOS versions of iBooks that could store your iBooks library on iCloud Drive. At the time, I noticed numerous and distressing problems with the new ...

Apple has just introduced a new way for you to buy gifts for friends and relatives. The iBooks Store has added the ability to give iBooks to those on your shopping list. It's been possible to send ...

A Wired blogger is accusing Apple of copying the user interface for its iBooks app from the iPhone book-reading app Classics. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews ...

When it comes to books, Apple seems to have lost the plot a bit. Ahead of this week’s education event, one rumor had the company unveiling a revamp in its iBooks Store and iBooks apps. But the event ...

Alongside the new iPad tablet-style device, Apple on Wednesday introduced its own proprietary virtual bookstore, dubbed iBooks, for reading content on the device's 9.7-inch color display. Apple CEO ...

Previously available on the web from Apple’s developer portal, the company’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines are now on the iBooks Store as a free download (via Dave Addey). The 20 MB guide is ...

Apple is reportedly tweaking its e-book offering to better take on Amazon, the current leader of the digital book market. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple will release a revamped version of the ...

Apple's iBooks application, which includes the iBookstore for purchasing new titles to read on the iPad, is now available for download in the App Store through iTunes. As a special gift to users, ...

When you update to OS X Mavericks beta 5, you might notice something rather exciting in your Applications folder: iBooks for Mac! Double click on the iBooks icon to launch iBooks for Mac, and then ...