Back­ing up rumors that have been drop­ping over the past cou­ple weeks regard­ing Apple’s media event on Thurs­day,ArsTech­ni­ca brings more wood to the firesay­ing Apple will announce a “Garage­Band for E-books” on Thurs­day. Apple has already dropped a few hints like ‘Join us for an edu­ca­tion announce­ment’ when it sent out invites last week. Wall Street Jour­nal also said this evening that Apple has report­ed­ly been work­ing with pub­lish­er McGraw-Hill since June.

ArsTech­ni­ca explains this whole “Garage­Band for E-books” notion:

At the same time, how­ev­er, author­ing standards-compliant e-books (despite some promis­es to the con­trary) is not as sim­ple as run­ning a Word doc­u­ment of a man­u­script through a fil­ter. The cur­rent state of soft­ware tools con­tin­ues to frus­trate authors and pub­lish­ers alike, with sev­er­al authors telling Ars that they wish Apple or some other ven­dor would make a sim­ple app that makes the process as easy as cre­at­ing a song in Garage­Band.

Our sources say Apple will announce such a tool on Thurs­day.

A text­book announce­ment of some kind is def­i­nite­ly com­ing Thurs­day, but it’s a mat­ter of what exact­ly. A cre­ation tool of some sort def­i­nite­ly sounds like a pos­si­bil­i­ty and leaves Apple out of hav­ing to act like a pub­lish­er. At any rate, Eddy Cue will be on stage Thurs­day morn­ing in New York City to make the announce­ment. Stay tuned!

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