Anyone who thinks, as David reflects here, that i-books have zero added functionality (as I would have happily agreed until a few weeks ago) should try Googling TS Eliots The Waste Land for iPad to have a look at the future for us all (there is a 2½-minute promotional video showing many of its features). Described thus: A unique reading experience This award-winning title brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years for a 21st century audience. A wealth of interactive features illuminate T.S. Eliots greatest work, including audio readings, detailed notes and expert insights. Its a remarkable achievement and points to a whole new future for books, of which birding field-guides are clearly serious early innovators. We are all clearly in for a rich multi-media reading experience, in many forms. Richard —–Original Message—– From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of David Stowe Sent: Friday, 29 November 2013 9:23 PM To: Peter Shute Cc: Arthur & Denise; birding-aus@lists.vicnet.net.au Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Video Overview: Pizzey & Knight Digital Edition Personally i can’t believe the Morcombe app is so cheap especially with the calls. Who else spent hundreds of dollars collecting the BOCA CD set?! Also there is so much more development work/cost that goes into an app compared to the printed book. You can’t honestly compare a novel with this app? There is zero added functionality to a novel -essentially its simply a “scan” of the printed version. Go and buy an ebook from CSIRO publishing for another example – ones i have looked at were the same cost as the printed book without any added functionality and no printing cost. Cheers, David Stowe =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
There is also a lot of basic ‘value added’ through the platform rather than the specific ebook. By way of example I grew up in the Dengie Peninsula in Essex UK (in birding terms think Bradwell Bird Observatory). With an iPad ebook of H G Wells “War of the Worlds” I was able to, pretty much instantaneously: – find the mentions of Tillingham (the next village West of Bradwell) and then – search the ‘net to see what was there about Tillingham (not much, but I do now know it hasn’t changed much since I left the area in 1968). I don’t think there is a dead-tree version of the novel that allows either of those activities. Martin On 29 November 2013 22:45, Richard Nowotny < richard.nowotny@bigpond.com>wrote: — Martin Butterfield http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/ =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================