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hi I'm Bridget Carey with Tina TV here at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City where Apple has announced new ways that you're going to be getting your textbooks and course materials on the iPad it starts with an update to the ibookstore there's a whole new category now for textbooks they have some really cool rich engaging interactive experiences and this is one here I'm going to pinch it up to full screen so you can see it better and now when I tap we zoom in and we see animated 3d models of the structures inside of a cell and they've even introduced an app called iBooks Author that makes it really simple for people to make textbooks and you don't need to have any programming skills but if you do have programming skills you're going to always take it up a notch with animations and unique features but with really simple tools all you have to do is drag and drop photos drag and drop movies and drag and drop the text itself it's all automatically formatted Apple is hoping that this makes textbooks more enjoyable the learning experience more interactive for classrooms so I'm really happy to be the first to tell you that the new iBooks Author will be available for free there also is another announcement the iTunes U has its own app now itunes you will now have entire college curriculums not just the PDF or a lecture video now you're syllabus all the materials you need for class the professor's can even send assignments to you and you'll get notified in the app and check off what assignments you complete it let's take a look at my next assignment this is to read a chapter and as I tap on it it opens up and shows me the book and just tapping on it switches me over to ibooks and it opens me right to that spot in the book the apps are free and those new interactive textbooks are going to start at 1499 or lower iTunes you will even be introduced to a K through 12 level so it's not just colleges anymore from the Guggenheim in New York City I'm Bridget Carey