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Apple Brings Textbooks to the iPad

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    FBN’s Shibani Joshi on Apple bringing textbooks to the iPad with iBooks 2.

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Backpacks just got -- whole lot lighter out there for -- kids everywhere in the company's first product launch.

Since then dad is Steve Jobs apple exacts taking the stage in New York City today to unveil their plan to reinvent the textbook.

The company bringing textbooks to the -- with the launch of -- to to free app.

Aims to make text text books that are quote the most engaging interactive.

Ever made.

Students can highlight take notes and even -- last cards to help them study for a -- The company has been working with publishers such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill and books are available and I book stores starting today but apple.

Didn't stop there and art and a half some textbooks to put into -- -- someone asked to write down.

The company launching iBooks author -- free -- act that can help the design any type of interactive but they would like -- books travel books children's books.

And who could forget about college kids apple announcing plans to revamp iTunes U with an -- the company will enable teachers to create full courses online for free already.

Signed -- universities including duke as well Stanford.

I teens use already available over nationwide to over a thousand university so.

Trying to change the education industry lowering the cost of education.

In its presentation today I was there at apple they -- -- the United States is lacking gain competitiveness against many other nations.

This is one way weekend that sort of bridge that gap -- -- education more accessible.

By lowering the cost.

But it would be dramatically lower 14989 and under.

For textbooks and who you think about anything you know I remember king more than 16100 dollars -- for more than actually.

For textbooks -- you talking 1499.

For a book that you normally pay 234 times.

So what running they use text bookstore outside of the -- who aren't afraid -- a -- argument I have myself look at McCain and -- for a while but it's gonna typewriter repair -- and -- isn't it.

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