the Idea of creating interactive, multimedia books is not new. We watched such attempts for many years, but only now the process is gaining blushes. The first of the big Premier was the debut of a series of books about Harry Potter, which became in the online store Apple iBooks Store. Defined it as "enhanced", and I must confess that I was very close to buying the entire collection. It would be nice crazy, because all 7 books are more than 250 rubles, so that when common sense prevailed over emotions, I just have a different profile.
enhanced iBooks from Apple
the world is J. K. Rowling magic and "magic", so live photos and interactive maps with information from the world of wizards is an excellent Supplement. Depending on the preferences of the reader they can bring a lot or nothing at all for the comfort and feelings while reading – without a doubt this is not new at all and hit, especially for the youngest of readers. We don’t know how many were sold, advanced versions of the books with the adventures of a young wizard, but everything indicates that it was not a one-time event. A few days ago in the shop came first contains part of the series Game of thrones, and more will be provided in time intervals.
Amazon and its Kindle in Motion
Even more involved in a project of this kind, it seems Amazon. On Kindle in Motion we had before the holidays, and since the directory giant current 7, moving books. They are enriched with video clips, animations, graphics in the background of the text or even mobile covers. There are no guidelines regarding the structure of the book, so I’m not going to buy, we are not able to say exactly what is inside of in addition reviews from people who already did it and a video showing the part with the add-ons. Look, for example, in Darkness There: Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe.
All of the additional elements are an integral part of the file (from 200 to 400 megabytes!), we take a device with a Kindle app (iOS, Android), and all this is only displayed in a vertical orientation, with or without a network connection. We can disable and stop the looped animation. None of the additions have not (yet) available for devices for reading electronic books the Kindle, but the existence of such a category in the store Amazonu may gently hint at the fact that more advanced readers, we shared fewer steps than hitherto, and that these multimedia books are one of the characteristic features of the ecosystem Amazonu.
Kindle in Motion were not presented with large fanfarami, there were no dedicated events or information package. Amazon is not responding even to the questions of the new format, which we can assume that we are dealing with a timid experiment, or… the upcoming big steps premiere. It will happen when the number of books in motion will be a lot more, and among the Kindle readers will appear new model is fully compatible with the new format.
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