We, here at Apps for Ipads, have many friends struggling to buy their college aged

kids their textbooks… do iPad apps just make more sense???

Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad App!

Now there’s an iPad application that could further lighten the load.

A new company called Inkling hopes to break the standard textbook model and help

textbooks enter the interactive age by letting students share and comment on the texts and interact with fellow students.

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·         iPad eBook Reader to Offer Textbooks | Edu in Review Blog - Even with a cheaper price tag, iPad textbooks could still fall victim to piracy, which is why Apple is employing the FairPlay digital rights management system (DRM) to ensure media in its new iBookstore are safe. ...

·         Inkling lets textbook makers embrace the iPad - inkling1 “The book will never die. But the textbook probably will,” says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis. Inkling is working directly with textbook publishers. First, they'll port their existing tomes onto Apple's iPad as interactive, ...

·         Textbook Publishers Embrace iPad Apps for Education - Book Publishers Apple actually has a very strong education strategy. Perhaps the first generation isn't all THAT, but I am very hopeful about what it can do for the publishing industry. I love books, and they are an integral part of any education.

·         Inkling for iPad: Textbooks go interactive | TodaysiPhone.com - The iPad is great for reading books, either through iBooks, Kindle, or another third-party application. However, textbooks have yet to take off on the iPad — until now.