Kid's E-Books Take the APP
"Earlier this week, Bertelsmann AG's Random House Inc. partnered with Smashing Ideas Inc., a digital agency based in Seattle that has previously developed games and websites for a variety of clients, to create book-based children's apps for mobile devices. Other publishers, too, have announced apps for children's books, including HarperCollins Publishers Inc., a unit of News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal." WSJ
What does this mean for photographers? It means work. Print books are limited to one image per page, a static image that has to convey an idea; with E-Books we can now have multiple images that fly past with the flick of a finger on an iPad or other upcoming mobile devices. We can spin the image front to back, upside down, zoom in and zoom out.
What does this mean for you? It means that you have to start thinking in a new dimension. You can pitch your work as being more than a static image; your work will no longer be just 2 dimensions. If you look back at the photographers before you, what is the difference between you and them? You have the advantage of being on the forefront of how we interact with photography.
- Marcel Proust
Now that we see a glimpse of the future, how do we get there?
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Digital textbooks will be great. No more hunchbacked kids carrying heavy books. Science curriculum will be more current. Knowledge will be for those who seek it and not depend so much on the publishers. My house will be less cluttered too.
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