Phil Schiller has taken to the stage and announced that Apple's "reinventing the textbook" by launching iBooks 2. There are 1.5 million iPads currently in use in educational programs and 20,000 educational apps available for the platform, which prompted development of the new app. The new app resembles a book-stand where you can enter textbooks and paw through content, stopping to take a look at detailed 3D animated models of specific elements within. The company's Roger Rosner said that "Clearly, no printed book can compete with this:" considering there are live-updated definitions for words as you select them. You can also read in portrait, where text occupies more of the space or landscape, which is more image-heavy -- there's also the option to have pop-quizzes appear around relevant sections. Adding notes and annotations is also baked into the system, you'll also be able to pull all of your amendments out and turn them into virtual 3 x 5-inch note-cards. The platform will also let you purchase, download and re-download any materials you've snagged in the same way that the company's other stores will. It'll be available today from the app store and it's free.
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