Today is Apple's big education event and the company kicked off its announcements with iBooks 2, which will bring a new textbook experience to the iPad. As expected, these textbooks will include standard text interspersed with interactive high-quality images, videos, animations and 3-D models.今天是蘋果公司進軍教育界的大日子。蘋果公司正式對外宣布推出iBook 2，用戶可以在iPad上體驗數字教科書的魅力。正如外界預期，這項數字教科書的新開發不僅包含了傳統的課本，還應用了各種交互性工具，比如高清圖片、錄像、動畫和立體模型。

This content will be more than pretty; it will provide students with an immersive learning environment. They will be able to pinch to zoom on images, tap on a word and read the glossary entry to find out what they are looking at. It will also include "My Notes" which will let you easily create study cards from a section of the textbook.這項新開發的好處還多著呢。它可以給學生帶來仿真的學習環境。他們可以對圖片進行多點觸控，縮放大小，還可以輕點生詞進入詞匯庫進行檢索。同時還提供了“我的筆記”功能，可以讓學生根據教科書中的某些內容輕松地制作學習卡片。

The first textbooks made available will be biology and high school science titles from Pearson, McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. These publishers make up 90 percent of the textbook market. DK Publishing will also launch with several interactive titles for children. Pricing is amazingly competitive with high school textbooks costing $14.99 or less.首批與蘋果公司合作的出版商包括Pearson, McGraw Hill 和Houghton Mifflin Harcourt，科目包括生物、高中科學等。這三家出版商出版的課本占領了美國九成以上的教科書市場。同時，出版商DK公司也將與蘋果公司合作推出兒童讀物的數字圖書。蘋果公司此次推出的新應用在價格上更是極具競爭力，與價格高昂的高中紙質課本相比，蘋果的數字教科書每本售價將不超過15美元。