Penguin's vision of books on the iPad doesn't look anything like books

The excitement over the iPad? It's this precisely kind of stuff that people are wetting themselves over, little slices of our tablet dreams.  What is a book anymore, in this format?  The ePub format that'll be the vessel of choice for ebooks sold in the iBooks store is designed to translate traditional books to a digital format. Which is why, Penguin Books CEO John Makinson says that "for the time being at least we'll be creating a lot of our digital content as applications for sales in app stores in HTML, rather than as ebooks.  The definition of a book itself, as you can see, is up for grabs."  Great comments.

http://gizmodo.com/5485150/penguins-incredible-vision-of-books-on-the-ipad-doesnt-look-anything-like-books

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Take a look at what digital books from megapublishers like Penguin will be like on the iPad.  Children's books that are games, interactive anatomy books, and an augmented reality intergalactic GPS system.  This is the future we've been waiting to see.

 
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