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Apple + Textbooks

Updating throughout the day:

• iBooks 2: Support for textbooks on the iPad.
• iBookstore Textbooks: About $15.
• iBooks Author: A Mac app for creating books (for iBooks (for iPad)).
• Apple in Education: Apple’s new focus on educational materials.
• iBooks Textbooks for iPad: All the features of Apple’s textbooks.
• iTunes U for iOS: An iBooks-like iOS app for subscribing to course materials.

iBooks Author Support Documents:

• Add video to your iBooks
• Publishing and distribution FAQ
• Use iPad-safe fonts when authoring books
• How to make your iBooks accessible
• Best practices for using 3D models

Tweets:

@settern .ibooks *is* ePub, with a mime type of "application/x-ibooks+zip". Drop one on @bbedit to see the innards.

— Rich Siegel (@siegel) January 19, 2012

Even though I no longer work for Apple apparently I'm still designing some of their products. pushpoppress.com ➜ apple.com/education

— Mike Matas (@mike_matas) January 19, 2012

It Doesn’t Suck (But This Still Bugs)

Another BBEdit 10 update has arrived, but this still hasn’t been fixed…

Create a new document:

Resize the window:

I know, right? It’s driving me crazy too.

…

(It’s the gray, single pixel separator running down the left edge of the window. It shouldn’t be drawn if the file list isn’t visible.)

Fear and Loathing at CES

Mat Honan:

An executive in a really nice suit from an up-and-coming display company tells me they plan to ship a half a million units this year. I try to figure out how much that is in kilograms of rare earth metals, but I can't. Wolfram Alpha turns out to be pretty useless for this kind of thing. The CEO is available for interviews.

Love it.

Grand Central Apple Store

Via Apple

Kottke:

It looks like the Apple Store not only belongs there, but that it’s been there forever, like Grand Central was designed with the Apple Store in mind.

Nice.

Occupy Art

via @dunstan via @mikeloukides via Bryce.vc via Mother Jones via uncleclark

Nice. More.

With Apologies to Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz

“You’re right, I did pay out 1.6 million dollars last year. I expect to pay out 1.6 million dollars this year. I expect to pay out 1.6 million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of 1.6 million dollars a year, my companies will have to stop interfering in child murder cases in… 4,750 years.”

See also: Murdoch Makes Payment to Family of Murdered Schoolgirl

Fun With Feeds

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Burlingame Apple Store

Day 1:

Day 2:

Posted from my iPhone.

Iterations

Very impressed by these concept iPhone designs by Item. I'm not sure when they were done (seems like post-iPhone 4 launch, hard to say) but I’d love to see Apple go in this direction. (Curved glass, smooth edges, glass home button, etc.)

Via Ryan.

Psych!

Here’s another one for the fine folks at Please. Fix. That.

Which is it, Mac App Store?

(Previously.)