August 25, 2011

2.0 Years Old!

A year ago today, Inkling celebrated its first birthday with the release of Inkling 1.0 for iPad and our first few interactive textbooks. Now, a year later, we’re celebrating our second birthday with Inkling 2.0 for iPad and nearly 50 of the world’s most popular undergraduate, business and medical textbooks. Aside from continuing our back-to-school habit of releasing new software, we’re another step closer to realizing our vision for the future of the textbook.

Inkling 2.0 scratches another itch we’ve felt about textbooks: they’re isolating. While it’s certainly useful to focus on your studies, it’s also important to talk to people about what you’re learning. That’s why Inkling now includes the collective wisdom of everyone who’s ever used your textbook. Ask a question inside the textbook, get an answer. Have a conversation with your professor, or a professor at another school. It’s a huge resource, and it’s wrapped inside every Inkling textbook.

All of this is on top of the media richness, interactivity, and comfortable usability of everything Inkling offers. It’s not just the world’s most engaging textbook; it’s now the world’s most connected textbook, too.

Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new in Inkling 2.0:
 
Study groups, evolved
Have discussions anywhere in the book with anyone who also uses it, including classmates, professors, Facebook friends, or people from anywhere in the world. If you have a question, odds are, someone’s got a good answer.

An expert in every book
Virtually every Inkling title has a designated “expert,” someone who knows the information inside and out. Follow the notes of the expert and you’ll see theirs in a different color. Plus, suggested discussions and popular comments help you grasp concepts more quickly and focus your attention on the stuff that matters most.

The ultimate study guide
Now, Inkling organizes all the notes, highlights, bookmarks and links that you create and “star” into one handy spot: the notebook. Instantly saved to the cloud, your notebook is like a friend who takes notes for you. You’ll be automatically building a study guide as you read.

Search beyond the book
Now, search results from Wikipedia or Google appear right inside in the book. You can even save them to the notebook for instant study access.

There’s even more inside Inkling 2.0. Curious about the evolution of your textbook on Inkling? Grab a free chapter of any of our titles and give it a shot.