Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad

Back in April, a group of book publishers that sponsor the university program I was in held their annual event on campus. I talked to a couple of the people from them, explaining how I thought that there was so much untapped potential in interactive books on mobile devices, particularly textbooks. Most ebooks are simple streams of text, great for reading novels but hardly ideal for textbooks. Ideally, a textbook should be as interactive as a website - searchable & navigable, graphically detailed, and filled with links, audio/video and interactive stuff like Javascript-powered graphs and calculators.

Inkling is pretty close to what I envisioned. It’s too bad that I’m out of college now so I have no reason to use it, but I hope this is the future of textbooks (and other similar books).

(via minimalmac)