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Although not a complete surprise, Apple launched an impressive application at their New York event on January 21st: iBooks Author.

Together with iBooks 2, the update of iTunes U, the immediately availability of free (US) textbooks and the fact that iBooks and iBooks Author are free of charge, clearly shows Apple's ambitions regarding the educational market.

It was not a complete surprise since it was specifically mentioned in Jobs' biography: "In fact Jobs had his sights set on textbooks as the next business he wanted to transform. He believed it was a $8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction."

You can imagine that we at WoodWing were specifically interested in iBooks Author as the creation tool. read more >>

As announced via a joint press release and Adobe's own DPS Blog, WoodWing's Tablet Publishing Solution is now going to integrate exclusively with Adobe's DPS system. Common questions from current and prospective customers are: What's next? Will WoodWing's Tablet Publishing Solution be a carbon copy of Adobe's? read more >>

Social media sharing is a hot topic among software vendors and users and has been so for quite some time. It's one of the reasons we included the ability to share articles from our Tablet Publishing Solution back in September of 2010. Well, we've gone ahead and made some big improvements to the feature and they debut in Version 2.0 of our iPad Reader software. read more >>

While Apple's iPad is still the dominant tablet device among consumers and publishers, we at WoodWing also see a growing number of media apps created for other platforms such as Android and the BlackBerry tablet OS utilizing our Tablet Publishing Solution.

In the last week, we added 30 new apps to our app gallery. We're proud to list the following titles available for these other platforms and congratulate those publishers that are extending their reach to these new channels: read more >>

The World Tour Event in San Francisco showed just how much the publishing world, and WoodWing, have changed in a year. read more >>