(Mashable) -- Apple is scheduled to host an education-related event on January 19 -- shrouded with a veil of mystery, as always. A new report from Ars Technica says the company is about to unveil a set of tools to create interactive e-books.
Previous rumors said that Apple will show no new devices, and that the event will center around Apple's new partnerships with textbook publishers.
If this new report is true, the event might turn out to be much more significant. Ars Technica's sources say Apple's about to present new authoring tools described as "GarageBand for e-books," making it easy for everyone to create interactive digital books.
The company also plans to expand its platform to distribute these e-books to iPhone and iPad users.
Apple, who currently supports the ePub 2 e-book standard (with some additions) is also expected to announce support for the ePub 3 standard for iBooks.
This venture is described as the pet project of Steve Jobs, who -- according to Walter Isaacson's biography -- believed the textbook industry is ripe for "digital destruction." According to Ars Technica's sources, Jobs was very closely involved on the project and has worked on it for several years.
Comment: this is a great idea! For God's sake what would be more useful than interactive eBooks?Nothing!People can read about any topic and use the textbook to do the work or even try it once to realy know what they're talkin about. And what about eTextBooks they are the best idea ever, it is easier in so much ways to carry an iPad than 6 textbooks, amd is even cheaper each textbook is like $30-50 so i as a person would prefer to buy an ipad for 3 years than spending that money on textbooks im never going to use again(i would prefer never to use boks, but...). This idea should become real and to be promoved in many schools at many countries so children wouldn't have to carry those heavy text books back and forth. And if each student uses an iPad he woud never forget one notebook and he would be more introduced in technology .So schools may promove that idea!
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