Publishers with content available on the iBookstore have been informed of improvements, bringing features that have been available in the App Store for some time. Among these new features are screenshots of published content and a promo code system allowing each publisher access to up to 50 codes for distribution to reviewers, just like for app developers.

If all your significant other wants for a Valentine’s Day movie is romance, you can get that in pretty much any kind of movie. So, when you hear the words “Let’s watch something romantic tonight,” you can steer clear of anything with Renee Zellweger or Reese Witherspoon in it and instead take these suggestions from the hopeless romantics here at Appletell. All the movies recommended are available for rental at purchase from iTunes.

Apple has announced it will be celebrating the upcoming release of Paul McCartney’s new album, entitled “Kisses on the Bottom,” by streaming a live concert of the artist for free via iTunes and Apple TV. The concert will be taking place at Capitol Studios on Thursday, February 9th at 7:00 pm PST and the live stream can be accessed via iTunes or on your Apple TV through “iTunes Live” within the Internet menu.

Browsing for ways to boost app sales/downloads will almost certainly bring you upon a service offering to increase your app’s ranking (such as, within the Top 25) for a fee. This is done through the use of scripts or bots that download an app over and over in order to increase its ranking. This is against Apple’s guidelines and could cause a developer to lose Apple Developer Program membership.

Apple has rolled out a new feature for Apple TV users. Owners of the media streaming device will now find a new option called Genius under Movies and TV Shows. The Mac version of the iTunes Store has had Genius recommendations for quite some time, but the feature has been absent from Apple TV until now. The Genius feature recommends iTunes content to watch based on your purchase history.

Following the recent success of Walter Isaacson’s biography on former Apple CEO Steve Jobs comes another more corporately-focused book on the company that Jobs co-founded and brought so much success to throughout his adult life. Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky brings to light Apple’s (and Jobs’ as well, to a lesser extent) business side and how the company operates instead of the personal coverage that Isaacson’s biography brought.

Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that provides seed funding for startups, has declared all-out war on Hollywood, calling for tech entrepreneurs to put forward ideas on what will be entertaining us 20 years from now. Y Combinator’s declaration of war is not so much a new call to arms as a statement of simple fact: The world is changing, and will always continue to do so. To fight against it is foolish. To embrace it, as we have seen, could just make your company the most valuable in the world.

Shortly after the Apple Education Event which took place in the New York City yesterday, Apple posted the entire 60-minute video on their own website. This hour-long video features Apple executives Phil-Schiller, Eddy Cue and Roger Rosner, who which took the stage to introduce the new iBooks 2 services.

Accompanying the new releases of iBooks 2 and iBooks Author comes iTunes 10.5.3, which allows users to sync the new interactive multitouch books using iTunes. These books can be purchased through iTunes on a user’s Mac or PC, or through iBooks 2. Aside from the ability to sync these new books, no other notable changes have been made in iTunes 10.5.3.

Another major announcement today from Apple’s education-based media event is the release of iTunes U—formerly only an educational podcast section within the iTunes Store—as an official iOS app. According to Apple’s Eddy Cue, who made the announcement on behalf of the company, over 1,000 universities currently make use of iTunes U, which has seen over 700,000,000 total downloads since its launch.