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Apple has updated iBook's design to match iOS 7's clean new style, finally removing the app's much-criticized wooden bookshelf layout. While iBooks' new main screen still displays book covers as though they were sitting on a physical shelf, the shelf is now just an off-white background — not unlike the new Newsstand design. Buttons and fonts across the app have been changed to match up with iOS 7's style as well, but otherwise there aren't big feature changes to speak of....

Apple on Thursday issued a major update for its iBooks application, giving it a cleaner and simpler look in line with the company's design for the iOS 7 platform.

Apple is marking the release of its newest version of iOS 7 with a new user guide focusing on the operating system and new designs for some of its in-house apps.

The ongoing antitrust trial by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging an effort by Apple to fix prices in the ebooks market has revealed that Apple's iBooks business grew by 100 percent last year, maintaining a 20 percent share of the overall market.

If you have your own collection of PDFs and ebooks, Google will now let you upload them to your Play Books library and sync them across the Web as well as Android and iOS devices....

Apple has rolled out version 3.1 of its ebook app iBooks, finally bringing with it support for hundreds of thousands of paid-for books in the Japanese iBookstore....

For the first time Apple’s iBookstore will offer paid ebooks in the Japanese market. The iBooks 3.1 update also brings reading improvements for other Asian languages.

Apple on Tuesday updated its iBooks application for iOS, adding access to its digital iBookstore to users from Japan.

If you were lucky enough to receive a new iPad for the holidays this year, we hope you have fun exploring what the tablet has to offer. By now you've probably acquainted yourself with the built-in apps on your iPad, so you may want to reach outside the sandbox for more interesting fare. The App Store, which you can access on your iPad or via iTunes on your computer, features more than 750,000 downloadable apps. If there’s something you want to do on your iPad, chances are good you can find a tool for it...

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We take a look at the new ebooks software Apple updated on Tuesday. The new scrolling view and social sharing of iBooks passages are interesting features updates, but may not be for everyone.

Good news for readers: Apple on Tuesday announced the newest version of its ereader software, iBooks, available as a free download on the App Store for iOS devices....

A new version of Apple's iBooks reader app appears to have been revealed in an iTunes listing for French comic book Largo Winch. Made available yesterday, issue 18 of the comic claims to require "iBooks 3.0 or later," while the latest version of the app currently listed by Apple remains 2.2, released almost exactly one month ago. The apparent slip-up was spotted by French Apple blog iGen, which points out that the timing of the update would make sense given the near-certainty that Apple will release a...

Following the public release of iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 earlier today, Apple has pushed a host of notable updates for many of its additional iOS apps in the App Store. Apps like Podcasts got iCloud sync and iOS 6 support, while smaller updates have been seeded to bring simple iOS 6 compatibility. Other popular apps from the iLife and iWork iOS suites received updates today too. Here’s a list of all the iOS app updates Apple released today:

By day, he’s the VP of PR and Media at Warner Bros. Records, but at night go-getter Andrew Steinthal runs the dining and entertainment site Immaculate Infatuation, which he likens it to a Zagat…

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn. Get remote access to your PC or Mac from any device, anywhere -- for free. The iPad is an excellent business tool,...

Atlantic Records has taken an uncommon approach to using Apple’s iBooks Author — touted as a creation platform that will “reinvent t…

Thursday’s Apple event presented a giant leap forward in the process of updating American education. As of today, elementary, high school and co…

On Thursday Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, took the stage to talk about education and announced Apple’s ambitious plan to reinvent the textbook. That plan includes iBooks 2, which Schiller called a “new textbook experience for the iPad.”

The new Apple iBooks update adds a number of features designed to refine and enhance the reading experience. Full-screen reading completely eliminates distractions like the faux-book and paper theme, title bar, and page numbers, leaving a reading experience that more closely resembles the iOS Kindle app. Apple has also expanded the limited set of iBooks fonts to include four new entries (such as Athelas and Iowan), and there's also a new "night time" reading theme with a black background and white text...

Apple on Wednesday issued an update to its iBooks iOS app, adding a night-time reading theme, full-screen layout, new fonts and an improved annotation palette.

Apple has issued an update to its iBooks app on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Version 1.5 of iBooks brings two major additions: a nighttime reading theme and full-screen mode. The update also brings several new fonts, more covers for public domain books, pop-up footnotes, and a redesigned annotation palette.

There are plenty of PDF viewers for iOS and a handful of editors, but nothing is quite so simple-to-use and feature-rich as PDFExpert. While some of the competition comes close, it's our pick for the best when working with PDFs on your iPhone. Platform: iPhonePrice: $10Download Page PDFExpert is about as close as you're going to get to a desktop-class PDF viewer and editor on your phone. It has a really nice, simple interface for bringing up your documents. You can get your documents on your iPhone (or...

Apple on Tuesday released iBooks 1.3, an update for its iOS-based e-reading software, adding a new read-aloud feature that uses a real narrator to read some children's books.

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So you’ve just (carefully) torn open the wrapping of a brand new iPad. You’ve hooked it up to iTunes for its initial sync, but now what? Which apps should you…

Apple on Wednesday updated its iBooks application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, adding the ability to place titles into collections, and send documents to AirPrint-compatible printers.

Apple has released an update to its iBooks application for the iOS and the latest version brings with it a few nice new features. As well as the ability to now choose between 6 different fonts for your books, you can also double-tap images to see them in greater detail; and experience books that include audio and video. In addition to new features, we also get welcome bug fixes, or, “stability and performance improvements.” I’ve lost count of the number of errors I get when opening a book in iBooks, so ...

The iBooks app's been updated to not only include support for audio and video content, but to also offer "substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs." The free update appears to be gradually showing up in iTunes.

Following up on making iOS 4 live for everyone, Apple has just updated iBooks to make it a universal app that now works on the iPhone and iPod Touch to…

Apple's iBooks application, which includes the iBookstore for purchasing new titles to read on the iPad, is now available for download in the App Store through iTunes.