Apple Books

Apple Books (known as iBooks prior to iOS 12 and macOS Mojave) is an e-book reading and store application by Apple for its iOS, iPadOS and macOS operating systems and devices. It was announced as 'iBooks' in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010, and released for the iPhone and iPod Touch in mid-2010, as part of the iOS 4 update. Initially, iBooks was not pre-loaded onto iOS devices, but users could install it free of charge from the iTunes App Store. With the release of iOS 8, it became an integrated app. At Apple's 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Craig Federighi announced that iBooks would also be provided with OS X Mavericks in Fall 2013. It primarily receives EPUB content from the Apple Books store, but users can also add their own EPUB and PDF files via data synchronization with iTunes. Additionally, the files can be downloaded to Apple Books through Safari or Apple Mail. It is also capable of displaying e-books that incorporate multimedia. According to product information as of March 2010, iBooks will be able to "read the contents of any page [to the user]" using VoiceOver. On January 19, 2012, at an education-focused special event in New York City, Apple announced the free release of iBooks 2, which can operate in landscape mode and allows for interactive reading. In addition, a new application, iBooks Author, was announced for the Mac App Store, allowing anyone to create interactive textbooks for reading in iBooks; and the iBooks Store was expanded with a textbook category. The iBooks Author Conference, an annual gathering of digital content creators around iBooks Author, convened between 2015 and 2017. Apple discontinued iBooks Author in 2020, its functionality having been integrated into Pages. iBooks was renamed 'Apple Books' in September 2018. Since then, the...