With all the blog chatter about myopic and hamstrung publishers, it’s easy to forget about the innovators like Nicholas Callaway…
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“The Warlock of Firetop Mountain”: another interactive text adventure hits the Kindle store
This is just a quick note that if you enjoy interactive adventure books — think choose-your-own-adventure, but with an added element of D&D-style dice rolling and hit points — then you might want to try out the new Kindle port of the Fighting Fantasy series, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. It just appeared on the [...]
Today’s bargain book: “Zombocalypse Now” by Matt Youngmark
“Zombocalypse Now” by Matt Youngmark Price: $2.99 / Lending enabled Amazon Summary: You’re a stuffed bunny and it’s the end of the world. Between you and your objective are forty or fifty zombies gorging themselves on the flesh of the living. If you disguise yourself as one of them and try to sneak past the [...]
"Dusk World" brings interactive comics to the Kindle
I’ve commented in a few recent posts that so far, the only “active content” titles we’ve seen on the Kindle Store have been games. I like games, but I’ve been wondering why no developer has tried anything more ambitious. Then “Dusk World” happens. The day after I put together a list of all the games [...]
The safe bet: following a print metaphor
This is part of my overview of interactive digital books as of October 2010. Current trends in interactive book design Relying on the printed page metaphor Interactivity as content Telling stories beyond the printed page As of right now, the most common interface metaphor for digital book apps remains the printed book. As I mentioned [...]
Current trends in interactive digital books
This is the first of a multi-post overview of interactive digital books as of October 2010. Current trends in interactive book design Relying on the printed page metaphor Interactivity as content Telling stories beyond the printed page Ebooks are exciting for several reasons: readers enjoy greater access, lower prices, and more choice; while publishers get [...]
Penguin previews interactive books for Apple's iBook store
Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson gave a presentation in London today where he demonstrated some books/applications–I’m not sure what you’d call them technically–that Penguin plans to sell on the iBook store when the iPad launches later this month. Penguin is doing some pretty inventive stuff with its content, judging by these demos, and I think [...]