When me and my fellow TUAW bloggers Erica Sadun and Mike Grothaus recently had our collaborative effort "Taking Your iPad to the Max" published by Apress in both ebook and printed format, I wanted to ...

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 ...

A new video tutorial app, SCOtutor for iBooks Author, has just been released and is now available in the Mac App Store. It requires Mac OS X Lion and is available for US$3.99 for a limited time.

Thanks to the new iBooks app in OS X Mavericks, it’s easy to store and read your ebooks—be they purchased from the iBookstore or elsewhere (as long as they’re in the .epub or .ibooks format). But you ...

In-depth video demonstrations of the iPad software including Safari browser, iBooks, Keynote, Pages and Numbers have been posted on Apple's Web site days before the hardware will be available for ...

What is Apple’s iBooks platform? The most obvious way to answer that question is to say that it’s the company’s equivalent of Amazon’s Kindle. And it is–they both offer online stores for buying ...

Not to be outdone by Kindle for iPad, Apple has updated its iBooks e-reader app to handle audio and video. Version 1.1.1 is ready for any iOS device. The rivalry between Amazon and Apple clearly shows ...

Apple has released enhanced editions of all seven Harry Potter e-books to iBooks for all you wizards and muggles out there to download to your iOS and OS X devices. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer ...

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