Apple Launches iBooks2, "A New Textbook Experience For The iPad", Opens Door to Self-Published Illustrated Books

Apple svp of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller led off Apple's much-anticipated "education announcement" at New York's Guggenheim Museum Thursday morning, before a strictly-limited but modestly-sized audience of about 150 invitees and members of the press. (Though focused on education, guests included multiple heads of trade houses.) "This is really special…