Abstract: Textbooks are the carrier of the educational ideas, the teaching contents, and the teaching methods. In this paper, the history and the current development of the textbooks of theoretical mechanics are analyzed, as well as the necessity of new form textbooks to integrate with internet technology, and the characteristics of the new form textbooks supplemented with digital course resources. The design of the new form textbook is proposed, and the development and the application of the new form textbook complied in Northeastern University are introduced.