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Mac OS Ken: 01.20.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7997 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Apple Announces iBooks 2, iBooks Textbooks, and iBooks Author Engadet and All Things D: iBooks Textbooks Top Out at $14.99 TechCrunch: iBooks Textbooks Start with Eight Titles Despite Partnerships with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson Apple New iTunes U App for iOS Devices; Organizes All Aspects of Courses Into App Apple Updates iTunes to v10.5.3 Adding Support iBooks Textbooks Syncing Business Insider: Potential Problems in the Way of Apple’s EDU Revolution Apple Posts Thursday EDU Event as a Podcast on iTunes Here China Unicom Says First-Week iPhone 4S Sales Better Than First-Week iPhone 4 Sales Security Firm Study Finds iOS Taking Top Spot From BlackBerry in Corporate Smartphones IHS: Windows Phone to Take Second Place from iOS Phones in 2015 IHS iSuppli: Apple World’s Largest Buyer of Microphones in 2011 At the Taipei Zoo: Hon Hai Chairman Likens Managing Million-Person Workforce to Managing a Million Animals

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0:00.0

This is MacO-S-Kinn.

0:07.0

A first book in The

0:08.0

This is MacO-S-Kinn.

0:12.0

A first book in Apple's education announcement, China Unicoms got iPhone 4S as a

0:17.0

plenty and the chairman of Han High may be the worst guy in the world.

0:21.1

It's Friday January 20th, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news

0:27.8

from Maco S. Ken brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you

0:33.7

subscribers to MacoS can Day six more information is available at MacoS can

0:40.1

com this show is also supported by the MacoS can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,

0:48.0

available in the App Store now for $2.99.

0:53.7

employing its usual brand of humility,

0:56.0

Apple son had a press release yesterday saying that it had reinvented textbooks.

1:02.0

That was the headline of the press release.

1:04.0

Apple reinvents textbooks with iBooks too for iPad.

1:08.0

Seems possible, though we don't know after one day.

1:12.0

That'll take at least three days. The big announcements, I Books

1:15.5

2 for iPad, I Books Author and the iTunes You app for the iPad, iPhone, and

1:21.4

I Pod iPod Touch.

1:23.0

While it has a new name, I Books 2 is actually an update of I Books,

1:27.0

bringing with its support for I Books's textbooks

1:29.0

that the company says are dynamic, engaging, and truly interactive.

1:34.0

Apple says its version of the future of textbooks offers iPad users full screen presentation

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