Apple launches iBooks 2 e-Textbook platform
We're here at Apple's education-flavored event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Phil Schiller
has just taken to the stage and announced the first half of Apple's platform that's going to "reinvent
the textbook:" iBooks 2. Saying that there were 1.5 million iPads currently in use in Education
(using 20,000 specific apps), the revamped book-stand now includes education-specific features to
help the budding students of the world.
Today, at an education-focused event in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, Apple announced the
debut of iBooks 2, a “new textbook experience for the iPad.”
A double-resolution iPad would feature a pixel density of 264 ppi. That would fall short of the
300 ppi "sweet spot" that Apple referred to for its "Retina" calculations and the 326 ppi of the
iPhone 4, though it would, of course, represent a significant improvement over the current model.
By comparison, the iPad and iPad 2 share a resolution of 1024x768 and a pixel density of 132 ppi.
The new app will offer customizable topics, have room for things such as office hours, allow
teachers to post messages or list assignments, and make lectures streamable or downloadable.
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