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CNET News - Apple shows off new iBooks app

2012-10-23
hi books of course makes it a pleasure to read on any of your iOS devices it includes an elegant bookshelf where you can put literally hundreds of books and carry them with you anywhere you go and just one tab and the bookshelf flips to reveal the iBook store where you'll find bestsellers gorgeous full-color picture books and multi-touch blogs we now have over a million and a half books on the book store and these these cover every kind of subject you could ever think of customers have now downloaded 400 million of them since the inception of the store if you open one of the books you'll find gorgeous pages and iBooks includes reading options like this beautiful sepia thing or this Knight thing which makes it really easy on the eyes when you're reading in the dark and today we're announcing a new version of iBooks and this contains a really cool new reading option with continuous scrolling so if you just flip when you're reading the word scroll by just as you would expect the new version of iBooks is also better integrated with iCloud so all of your purchase books show up on your bookshelf and you can tap one and begin reading just where you left off there's also some fantastic new ways to share you can just tap on your favorite quote and share it with anyone on Facebook or Twitter this is really cool we also have we're also supporting over 40 languages like this one from this this one in Korea notice the crisp beautiful fog they're available in iOS 6 and Chinese look at the beautiful vertical print and Japanese the pages turn left to right just like you would expect if you're Japanese that is the new version of iBooks is available today it's a free download it's in the App Store and I would encourage you to get it it's really fantastic I think gonna go you're gonna love it
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