Apple iBooks

Hi,
as we know apple iBooks becoming very popular of ebooks/ibook
i was thinking if Cisco can publish free Documentations, guides ..etc on the iBooks store will be very handy to apple devices users in particular iPAD and iPhone
although a pdf document can be transferred to the ibook and read but having the actual document in the ibooks format and store i think will make significant difference
Thanks
Marwan

Hi Marwan
Thanks for the suggestion! We agree, and have begun to publish tech docs in epub format available from the Cisco site - here's an example:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/upgrading/from1.4/to2.0/b_UpgradingCiscoUCSFrom1.4To2.0.html
Also, we are looking into providing docs in the iBooks store. If and when that happens, we'll let you know,
Thanks again, appreciate your feedback!
Hilde

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