Apple has decided to provide U.S. contributions to the e-textbooks for university students, by adding more than 7 thousands of a title for iPod devices, equipped with touch screen phones and the iPhone, due to increased demand for such service.

Will provide a new service, subscribers to the site "CourseSmart LLC", university students access to electronic copies of textbooks in full, as given opportunities to read the online diary and search for specific word or phrase between them.

Frank Lehmann, Deputy Executive Director of the site that the service will allow the students a real education from a distance, he said, adding that the student will be able to when you need to search for the answer to a question of immediate access to the text.

The site has "CourseSmart LLC" six of the top publishers of textbooks, and the idea is to rent the e-books for only six months, half price books, ordinary, and when the subscription period ends, students are not allowed to see it.

Predicted Albert Greco, a professor at the Faculty of Business Administration at Fordham University to reach sales of books, university courses to more than $ 117.5 million for the year 2009