Company announces today iBooks 2, a "new textbook experience" for the iPad and Apple's attempt to bury traditional schoolbooks. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

Just under a year ago, Apple released new Mac and iOS versions of iBooks that could store your iBooks library on iCloud Drive. At the time, I noticed numerous and distressing problems with the new ...

In a move that should please publishers, the September release of iOS 8, Apple’s updated operating system for phones and tablets, included the integration of the iBooks app. Now all new Apple mobile ...

A Wired blogger is accusing Apple of copying the user interface for its iBooks app from the iPhone book-reading app Classics. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews ...

Enhanced editions of all seven books in the blockbuster "Harry Potter" series, featuring the original text with interactive animations and elaborate artwork, are now available exclusively on the ...

A spread from the book I created with iBooks Author What is Apple’s iBooks platform? The most obvious way to answer that question is to say that it’s the company’s equivalent of Amazon’s Kindle. And ...

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. As a special gift to users, ...

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple will revamp the iBooks app later this year with a major redesign, with a new ‘Reading Now’ tab, a separate section for audiobooks and a store interface ...

J.K. Rowling, Pottermore, and Apple released new enhanced editions of the Harry Potter novels into the Apple iBooks store. The new digital editions feature full original text, interactive animations ...

When it comes to books, Apple seems to have lost the plot a bit. Ahead of this week’s education event, one rumor had the company unveiling a revamp in its iBooks Store and iBooks apps. But the event ...