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iBooks Textbooks Reached 350,000 Download Mark in Three Days

iBooks Textbooks

Within three days of it’s launch iBooks Textbooks have stacked pretty good numbers on the chart. Around 350,000 copies of textbooks have been downloaded according to AllthingsD via Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. If these numbers are correct then Apple’s effort to revive textbooks is of to a good start.

“According to Global Equities Research, which monitors Apple’s iBook sales via a proprietary tracking system it doesn’t much care to discuss, more than 350,000 textbooks were downloaded from the company’s iBooks Store within the first three days of availability. And there were some 90,000 downloads of iBooks Author, Apple’s free textbook-creation tool, during the same time.”

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Hands on Video Apple iBooks 2 on iPad

Engadget has posted a hands on video with Apple’s new iBooks 2 running on iPad.

Interacting with the books is a generally intuitive combination of tapping, swiping and pinching. You can pinch from any page to get out to the heading of that chapter, then drag along a bar on the bottom to quickly go from one chapter to the next. When you’re looking at any page, you can get a closer view of any of the media there by simply pinching it. Tiny picture of an ant? Give it a nudge and it’s full-screen. You can then swipe through galleries, play movies and interact with various other widgets that authors can drop in place.