The new iBooks application for the iPad will replace school textbooks in the U.S.

Today at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Apple announced the release of new version of iBooks with new design and functionality, which is designed to inflict a crushing blow to its main rival - Kindle, starting a new war, a war of electronic books. Apple decided to focus its efforts on education, with the potential to replace paper with electronic versions of books on the iPad.

The new version enhances iBooks and removes the limitations of previous versions, now it can produce video, audio, equipped with a multitouch screen. But the text - is still the main element of the platform, the same textbook, in the end. The book can be read in landscape or portrait version with the ability to add notes. And, of course, in all sections of the book will be interactive quizzes to assess student.

Mirnt.ru learned that Apple has "published" books of some famous American authors. First of all, Apple has created iBooks for schools. The books themselves are pretty cheap for the U.S. market - less than $ 15, but here he is still iPad expensive prospect for U.S. secondary schools. But Apple's claim that the schools in this gadget would be a serious discount.

There will also be a new platform to samopublikovatsya called iBooks Author. It will be available under Mac OS. According to New York Times, this program does not require knowledge of programming languages, and templates will contain textbooks for possible use by the authors.

The application has two iBooks available for use on iPhone and iPad, but the function of a textbook will only be for the iPad.