Will Apple Reveal a Garage Band for eBooks?

By Dianna Dilworth 

This Thursday, Apple is hosting an “education announcement” in New York City–generating rumors all month.

Ars Technica published the latest rumor today. The blog wrote: “Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the ‘GarageBand for e-books,’ so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users.” Wired is reporting that its sources say Apple will such a tool at the event on Thursday.

eBookNewser has more “We’ve heard that they are going to announce a self-publishing platform. We’ve also heard that they are going to get into digital textbooks. And now we’re hearing that Apple is going to come up with a tool that would do for eBooks what Garage Band does for digital music files.”