Apple Tablet Books Need to Be Better than Vooks

Yesterday , we explored Apple ’s discussions with newsprint , magazine and textbook newspaper publisher about creating anew case of hybridized mediafor an Apple tablet . Vooks — synergistic books for the PC / iPhone — are a tell model of such an idea gone haywire .

https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-maga-5370252

pop out today , four Vooks are usable for $ 7 a pop . They ’re basically part - book , part - video recording account and instructional textual matter that can colligate you to social networking site should you require to fanboy out to your awe-inspiring Vook .

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While the idea is profound , the product looks no well than a mid-90s encyclopedia on CD .

And it really makes us realize , mix medias — peculiarly raise textbook for fiction — is tricky beyond the bare subject of taste . We ’re used to watch both news and fart - related video recording clips on a blog , but embedded flash video is just corny when place next to a slaying mystery .

Part of the challenge is format . UI needs to be update to something we have n’t really seen before — or maybe even imagine . Jumping across media should be a natural , passive experience . That part seems realizable , though extremely difficult , with touch , camera and even voice interfaces . For instance , you could track a reader ’s eyes to a certain word and activate a audio . You could make a page turn by nature to a full filmdom video recording as oppose to relegating clips to an awkward 480×360 loge .

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But when hybridizing medium , the part that could be even baffling is one of budgetary constraints . As before long as a Good Book includes video recording , a publishing home becomes a production house and a author becomes a director / editor program . Stephen King ’s prose might send chills up your spine , but the local cable commercial-grade quality picture blurb sitting beside it wo n’t have the budgetary honey of a Hollywood picture , at least , not unless Stephen King or somebody else is go bad to take a paycut ( or sell a LOT more books ) .

Advertising books be money . printing process and distributing Christian Bible costs money . But compose a book ? That part ’s basically free .

So whatever Apple and publishing houses are cooking up , we hope it ’s beyond what we ’ve run into in Vooks . No offense , Vook — someone had to do it ( wrong ) first . [ VookviaNYT ]

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