DK Launches Electronic Textbooks for Apple's iBooks Platform

Posted on January 22, 2012

Apple recently launched a new digital textbook platform as well as a partnership with major textbook publishers. DK is one of the educational publishers providing digital textbooks for Apple's iBooks, which can be purchased on iTunes. DK's four new titles include My First ABC, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Life, DK Natural History: Insects and DK Natural History: Mammals-Carnivores.

Some of the interactive highlights of these new digital textbooks include:

• A 3-D model of a velociraptor skeleton
• An animation showing the step-by-step formation of a fossil
• A movie of a tiger hunting and a brown bear catching salmon
• Microscopic images of insects' eyes and wings
• The sound of a Madagascan hissing cockroach

The DinoSpread pictured above is from DK's Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Life iBook.