iBooks 2, and Apple's aim of educating the masses, is off to a flying start with a reported 350,000 textbooks downloaded from the new store in just three days.

The education initiative was announced by Apple's senior vice president of worldwide...

Apple has big plans for iBooks. The app that once had us so excited over a simple page animation has come a long way since we first saw it demoed on the original iPad.

Last night Apple launched iBooks 2, along with an incredibly powerful desktop...

Over in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the mystery of Apple's education event was put to bed today with the tech giant unleashing iBooks 2 - "a new textbook experience for iPad."

But it was the iBooks Author Mac app part of Phil Schiller's...

Over in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the mystery of Apple's education event is over; the tech giant has announced iBooks 2 - "a new textbook experience for iPad."

"We try to bring the same energy and passion we've put into every product...

At launch, the iPad was pegged as the future means of content consumption for all magazines and newspapers. Now this might not have come completely true, but there is definitely a lot available to read on it. 

Its 9.7-inch IPS display is perfectly...

While not strictly applications, some ebooks are so interactive and full of enhanced content that they're just as valid for an App of the Day as any dedicated software. After all, the superb interactive Alice in Wonderland may be classified as an app,...

A remarkably well-looking Steve Jobs took to the stage at the Apple iPad 2 launch to rapturous applause, and then proudly stated that over 200 million eBooks have so far been downloaded through iBooks since it was launched roughly a year ago.

In...

Apple has quietly wheeled out version 1.2 of its official eBook reading app, iBooks.

The update brings with it a new focus on illustrated books with 100 new children's titles, cookbooks and photography books released containing rich and colourful...

Sony has revealed that it is planning on going cross-platform with its ebook reading platform, Sony Reader, by releasing an app for iOS and Android devices.

There's no plans for a big screen iPad version yet, but the iPhone and Android apps...

Apple could be about to launch a newsstand store similar to its iBooks offering that sells newspapers and magazines to iPhone and iPad owners according to sources "familiar with the matter".

"The newsstand, designed particularly for the iPad,...

In a first for the industry, Stephen Fry and Penguin Books have released the actor, author and most famous Apple fanboi's memoirs on multiple platforms, including in eBook and iPhone app guises.

The Fry Chronicles, which follows his life from...

Blonde and Wet: The Complete Story, a novella by British author Carl East, is apparently one of the best selling titles in Apple's iBooks Store. There are even reports that at one point, it was the best-selling ebook for Apple's Kindle Store rival.

But...

Apple has confirmed that it has banned Vietnamese developer Thuat Nguyen's apps from the App Store after "fraudulent purchase patterns".

Nguyen, at one point, occupied 42 of the top 50 "book" apps in the App Store.

There had been complaints...

iBooks is now available on all iOS 4 Apple devices meaning that you can now catch up with your reading on your iPhone and iPod Touch.

The app not only gives you access to the all of the books in the iBookstore, it also acts as a PDF manager,...

Apple has updated its iBooks app for the iPad and iPhone, adding a number of features that weren’t there for launch.

Having already served up over 5 million iBooks, that's 2.5 books per iPad for anyone counting, Apple are already claiming...