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 ...

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, ...

Another sign that Kindle should beware: iBooks is the most popular free application for the iPad and iPhone. According to Distimo, a start-up that analyzes app stats, iBooks has made the top ten list ...

Apple’s Guided Tour iPad videos, released this week, provide a detailed look about how the iPad will work. Some of the more interesting videos focus on the entertainment apps — iBooks, Photos, Video, ...

Apple today announced iBooks Author and iBooks 2, free applications that let educational publishers and teachers create and market K-12 textbooks and course materials for the iPad. Apple’s move had ...

In demonstrating the iPad’s new slick iBooks e-book reading application, it was explicitly stated that the iPad uses the free, open e-book standard, ePub format. This is a surprisingly rare but ...

Apple has informed participants in its iTunes Connect media publishing service that the iBooks Author app for Mac “will no longer be updated and will soon be removed from the Mac App Store.” This is a ...

Never before has an announcement about textbooks been the subject of so much conversation. But that’s what happens when Apple holds a media event: People talk, even if the subject might otherwise seem ...

Apple has rolled out two major changes to its iBooks digital book platform this week. First the company added an iBooks section to iTunes, allowing you to purchase and download books from your ...

My only issue with iBooks is that the selection of books is still pathetic. I`ve bought one book so far and would love to get some more, but the selection is just so anemic. Of course the solution to ...