Recently we’ve been exploring how the book industry is adjusting to electronic books. There are pros and cons to eBooks, but regardless the industry is moving to digital formats fast – even to the point of the Oxford English Dictionary considering not publishing another print edition.
Some book publishers aren’t just adjusting to eBooks, they’re embracing them with open arms. Moving Tales is one such publisher. It recently released a book as an iPad app, called The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross. Moving Tales, as the name implies, is a producer of animated books. It’s a mix of movies and books, but does it work?
Moving Tales aims to “bring stories to life,” through multimedia features such as 3D animation, music, voice overs, sound effects, alternate views and animation of text “using the iPad’s accelerometer.” The company also makes use of features native to a tablet-like device, such as page swipe or tap for page turning and what it describes as “extras to ensure no two viewings [are] alike.”
Continues at: Moving Tales: Do Animated eBooks Have a Future?.
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