Apple has announced iBooks, a companion app to the new iPad tablet. The book-reader and store will use the .epub format, an open e-book standard. Titles from Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group will be available.
Since it's a digital device, you'll be able to change font types and sizes and view photos and videos within books. Prices will roughly range between about $8 and $15 per title. Apple didn't detail how many books will be available, but New York Times bestsellers and other popular content was promised.
Who's conspicuously absent from that list? None other than iPad blabber, McGraw-Hill. Coincidence?
