What is iBook

Don't seem to know what iBook is other than iBook Author which only runs on Lion? Can anyone shed some light on this? Is there an iBook App or something?

Mickey_ wrote:
Is there an iBook App or something?
iBooks Author is for making (not reading) iBooks.   The forum for it is
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_app_store/ibooks_author
It can be made to run on 10.6.

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