You've heard me call the iPad a game changer for elearning. And I've talked about the post PC era that the iPad has created.

Now Apple has released the new iBook app, aimed at K-12 and post secondary education. How does that effect the future of corporate learning? And notice that I've dropped the "e" from e-learning. The "e"could be considered fairly redundant by now.

The Apple video above is well worth watching. If you haven't seen it yet, it will set your mind spinning with future possibilities.

To be sure, iBooks isn't yet poised to take over corporate learning. Results have to be acquired through iTunes and have to be played on an iPad. Not such bad things, but by far more corporate content is private than not. Unless Apple comes up with conditional download from iTunes, we won't be rushing to doing our courses there in the near future.

But will the iPad become a standard. From an analysts view, it seems likely. Let me show you why in this graph below, which I found in a CNN Money story on the web.

You can see that, for longer or shorter periods of time, all PC sales except for Apple's have been declining. But through the steepest declines, look what happens (the circled area) when you add iPads into the mix. This is very graphic proof that we are entering the post PC era. (click on the graph and you'll open a window with the article)