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.
今天是苹果公司进军教育界的大日子。苹果公司正式对外宣布推出iBook 2，用户可以在iPad上体验数字教科书的魅力。正如外界预期，这项数字教科书的新开发不仅包含了传统的课本，还应用了各种交互性工具，比如高清图片、录像、动画和立体模型。

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.
这项新开发的好处还多着呢。它可以给学生带来仿真的学习环境。他们可以对图片进行多点触控，缩放大小，还可以轻点生词进入词汇库进行检索。同时还提供了“我的笔记”功能，可以让学生根据教科书中的某些内容轻松地制作学习卡片。

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.
首批与苹果公司合作的出版商包括Pearson, McGraw Hill 和Houghton Mifflin Harcourt，科目包括生物、高中科学等。这三家出版商出版的课本占领了美国九成以上的教科书市场。同时，出版商DK公司也将与苹果公司合作推出儿童读物的数字图书。苹果公司此次推出的新应用在价格上更是极具竞争力，与价格高昂的高中纸质课本相比，苹果的数字教科书每本售价将不超过15美元。