Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Apple International software and services, has said in an email that, he "found the e-mail, books, Facebook and videos are very competitive on the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy". This also implies that the iPad Mini will also focus on this type of use.
Insiders speculated that Apple may release iBook at the press conference, adding annotation and other functions in order to compete with the Amazon Kindle x-Ray functionalities, Apple or will even add a variety of mode supports of audio and text book synchronization for it. iBooks Author is also possible to obtain the upgrade, in order to strengthen its position as an authoring tool, and it will support the screen format of the new iPad Mini and iPhone 5.
On Apple's press conference on October 23, it is very likely to highlight the iBook, but there are still no news showed that Apple will launch the corresponding feature upgrades for the crowds who like the movie, but it does not rule out that there will be news about the movie announced in the conference.