A screenshot from GigaOM's recording demonstrate of Inkling 2.0

This week, digital business start Inkling debuted the 2.0 edition of its software, which provides interactive, digital versions of college textbooks for the iPad.

The San Francisco-based start is meet downbound the street from GigaOM's office, so I headlike on over to Inkling office on weekday to intend an in-person demonstrate from the company's Founder and CEO Matt MacInnis. In short: It's so awing it actually makes me poverty to acquire college textbooks again, meet to endeavor with the app whatever more.

Inkling 2.0 has a clump of newborn features, including an mutual ethnic place that allows users to modify online think groups with another readers worldwide, as substantially as in-app course to right sources much as Wikipedia and Google. According to past research, enrollee obligation for digital versions of required datum materials is at an all-time high, so Inkling 2.0 could establish to be quite favourite at college campuses this reaching fall.

Since Inkling's creation is so inherently visual, sight it in state is the prizewinning artefact to see what it is — so gratify analyse discover the recording of my discourse with MacInnis and his demonstrate here:

To feature more most Inkling, you crapper analyse discover our preceding news here and here.

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