Updating throughout the day:

• iBooks 2: Support for textbooks on the iPad.
• iBookstore Textbooks: About $15.
• iBooks Author: A Mac app for creating books (for iBooks (for iPad)).
• Apple in Education: Apple’s new focus on educational materials.
• iBooks Textbooks for iPad: All the features of Apple’s textbooks.
• iTunes U for iOS: An iBooks-like iOS app for subscribing to course materials.

iBooks Author Support Documents:

• Add video to your iBooks
• Publishing and distribution FAQ
• Use iPad-safe fonts when authoring books
• How to make your iBooks accessible
• Best practices for using 3D models

Tweets:

@settern .ibooks *is* ePub, with a mime type of "application/x-ibooks+zip". Drop one on @bbedit to see the innards.

— Rich Siegel (@siegel) January 19, 2012

Even though I no longer work for Apple apparently I’m still designing some of their products. pushpoppress.com ➜ apple.com/education

— Mike Matas (@mike_matas) January 19, 2012