iPad publisher Inkling nabs $16M and partners with Pearson and Elsevier

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Interactive iOS (s AAPL) publishing platform Inkling has closed a $16 million series C funding round and established strategic partnerships with educational publishers Pearson (s PSO) and Elsevier (s RUK), the company plans to announce Wednesday.

Pearson — along with McGraw Hill — has already invested in Inkling a couple times, but now Inkling’s cloud-based publishing platform, Habitat, will serve as both Pearson and Elsevier’s primary digital content development platform, with all of their new digital content being constructed through it. Elsevier will also bring 650 existing medical textbooks to the platform. Right now, Inkling has around 550 titles available for iPhone, iPad and web.

The $16 million funding round was led by Sequoia Capital. Inkling raised $17 million in August 2011 and an unspecified amount from McGraw-Hill and Pearson earlier that year. CEO Matt MacInnis told me the funding will be used to help large publishers integrate Habitat…

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