Phil Schiller has just taken to the stage of Apple's education event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City and announced the first half of Apple's platform that's going to “reinvent the textbook:” iBooks 2. Saying that there were 1.5 million iPads currently in use in Education (using 20,000 specific apps), the revamped book-stand now includes education-specific features to help the budding students of the world. You'll be able to paw through content, stopping to flick through detailed 3D animated models of elements within, access video and definitions without leaving the page.
2DayBlog.com, Apple launches iBooks 2 e-Textbook platform
