Apple's iPad allows you to be productive while on the go. Besides e-books, the iBooks app allows you to view documents encoded in Adobe's PDF format. Viewing PDFs in your iPad can allow you to ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

You know how Apple sometimes freaks out about protecting intellectual property, even disabling certain features to discourage piracy and push users to their own digital content stores? A good example ...

I'm in a bit of a bind due to the black box that is iCloud... I'm moving from an iPad Air 2 to a new 10.5" Pro (very, very slick), and I've got a rather large collection of music PDFs in iBooks on the ...

In another instance where it would have been nice of Apple to publish more-complete release notes, we totally missed a significant change in the iBooks app until recently. Back in “Take Control’s ...

Adam Engst at TidBITS details an important change in how iBooks handles .EPUB files opened directly on iOS: The practical upshot of this fix is that you can now transfer EPUB files into iBooks far ...

Apple’s iPad went on pre-order for the lucky Amer’cans today (the rest of us have to wait an interminable extra week or so) but Apple also revealed a little more about its iBooks effort. Guess what?

iBooks Author is an intriguing app and a a big deal for publishers. But while the app is obviously very new, some aspects of the software give me pause. Here are my questions for Apple about the ...

Apple has built its iBooks platform on the back of an open standard. With last week's introduction of iBooks 2.0 and the free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X, Apple is deliberately locking out ...

Users running OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.5 are beginning to see an “Open in iBooks” button for purchased books in the iTunes Store, replacing the previous “Download” button text. The button, ...