Read Any ePub Formatted eBook On Your iPad – Or Have It Read Aloud To You

Apple released some additional information about the eBook reader capabilities of the iPad, specifically the iBooks app.

When the iPad is made available (presumably alongside an updated version of iTunes) you’ll be able to sync any (non-DRM protected) ePub book with your iPad using iTunes. That means any book can take advantage of the slick page-flipping interface found in the iBooks application, even if you didn’t buy it in the iBookStore.

With most eReaders, this would be an assumed capability but with Apple, well, sometimes we just don’t how they’re going to surprise us.

The company also made it know that their VoiceOver screen-reading capability will be available on the iPad and that iBooks will be enabled to use it. So, when you need to take a drive but you’d like to finish your book, you can.

Wait. Did you hear that? That’s the publishing industry (publishers, authors, narrators and audiobook retailers) just totally freaking out.

[Macworld]

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