Edward C. Baig - iPad® For Dummies®, 6th Edition

Edward C. Baig writes the weekly Personal Technology column in USA TODAY and is a regular on USA TODAY podcasts and videos. Ed is also the author of Macs For Dummies, 11th Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and cowriter of iPhone For Dummies. Before joining USA TODAY as a columnist and reporter in 1999, Ed spent six years at Business Week, where he wrote and edited stories about consumer tech, personal finance, collectibles, travel, and wine tasting, among other topics. He received the Medill School of Journalism 1999 Financial Writers and Editors Award for contributions to the "Business Week Investor Guide to Online Investing." That followed a three-year stint at U.S. News & World Report, where Ed was the lead tech writer for the News You Can Use section but also dabbled in numerous other subjects.

Ed began his journalist career at Fortune magazine, gaining the best basic training imaginable during his early years as a fact checker and contributor to the Fortune 500. Through the dozen years he worked at the magazine, Ed covered leisure-time industries, penned features on the lucrative "dating" market and the effect of religion on corporate managers, and was heavily involved in the Most Admired Companies project. Ed also started up Fortune's Products to Watch column, a venue for low- and high-tech items.

Bob LeVitus, often referred to as "Dr. Mac, " has written or co-written over 70 popular computer books, with millions of copies in print. His titles include OS X Mavericks For Dummies, iPhone For Dummies, Incredible iPhone Apps For Dummies, and Microsoft Office 2011 For Mac For Dummies, all for John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Bob has also penned the popular Dr. Mac column for the Houston Chronicle for more than 15 years and has been published in pretty much every magazine that ever used the word Mac in its title. His achievements have been documented in major media around the world. (Yes, that was him juggling a keyboard in USA TODAY a few years back!)

Bob is known for his expertise, trademark humorous style, and ability to translate techie jargon into usable and fun advice for regular folks. Bob is also a prolific public speaker, presenting more than 100 Macworld Expo training sessions in the United States and abroad, keynote addresses in three countries, and Macintosh training seminars in many U.S. cities.

I dedicate this book to my beautiful wife, Janie, for inspiring me in myriad ways every day I am with her. And to my incredible kids: my adorable little girl, Sydney (one of her first words was iPod ), my little boy, Sammy (who is all smiles from the moment he wakes up in the morning), and my "canine" puppy daughter Sadie (who thankfully hasn't chewed on the iPad yet). My kids are already hooked on the iPad. This book is also dedicated to the memory of my "canine" son, Eddie, Jr., and my late parents, Samuel and Lucille Baig. I am madly in love with you all. - Ed Baig

Every book I've ever written and every book I will ever write is dedicated to my wife of almost 30 years, Lisa, who has taught me more about everything I know than anyone on the planet. Every book I've written has also been dedicated to my awesome (adult) kids, Allison and Jacob, who love their iPhones and iPads almost as much as I love them (my kids, not my gadgets). This book, however, is dedicated to my young cousin, Jack Wagner, who is my only relative who loves iPhones, iPads, and other gadgets more than both of my kids put together. This one's for you, cousin Jack! - Bob LeVitus

Special thanks to everyone at Apple who helped us turn this book around so quickly: Katie Cotton, Natalie Kerris, Natalie Harrison, Teresa Brewer, Trudy Muller, Keri Walker, Jennifer Bowcock, Simon Pope, Tom Neumayr, Christine Monaghan, and everyone else who lent a hand from the mothership out in Cupertino. We couldn't have done it without you and apologize to anyone we left out.

Big-time thanks to the gang at Wiley: Bob "Incredibly laidback again for this edition" Woerner, Rebecca "Remarkably mellow yet again" Senninger, Andy "The Boss" Cummings, and our incredible technical editor Dennis R. Cohen, whose suggestions and observations helped immensely (even the ones we ignored). Finally, thanks to everyone at Wiley we don't know by name. If you helped with this project in any way, you have our everlasting thanks.