A virtual, interactive textbook, integrating pictures, video and collaboration. This is the iPad’s killer app. Now we just have to see how many of the big textbook publishing houses will get on board.

Textbooks are big business, so my hopes aren’t too high as of yet, but Inkling is showing off a big bright future for a more interactive and informative textbook with Inkling. It really delivers on the promises that we were made as far as education with the iPad. If my textbooks were this interesting and useful, I wouldn’t have hated them nearly as much.

Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks books into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use.

Features:
● The flexibility to purchase by the chapter or by the book
● Shared Notes that make it easy to collaborate with friends in realtime
● Integrated interactive media in every textbook title, such as movies, 3-D objects, and guided tours
● A simple and powerful user interface that makes it easy to study
● Interactive quizzes that help you immediately gauge your level of understanding
● An intuitive search engine that predicts your search as you type
● All the content of the print edition, and a lot more
● Page numbers you can jump to directly
● Digital media you’d otherwise get online with a “code,” integrated directly

Inkling [iTunes] Free