{"id":526776,"date":"2010-04-14T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=112866"},"modified":"2010-04-14T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:00:19","slug":"alice-on-the-ipad-is-this-the-future-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526776","title":{"rendered":"Alice on the iPad: Is This the Future of Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have an iPad, but watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw\">this amazing video<\/a> (embedded below) demonstrating the Alice in Wonderland app made me want to run out and get one &#8212; and if I had a young child, it would make me want to get one even faster. I know that many people believe reading should be a quiet and relaxing activity, and that there&#8217;s nothing quite like communing with the pages of a well-read classic, but this video makes reading &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221; look like&#8230;well, it looks like a lot of fun. And I have a feeling if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Carroll\">Charles Lutwidge Dodson<\/a> (i.e., Lewis Carroll) could see his story represented like this, he would probably think it was kind of fun as well.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gew68Qj5kxw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gew68Qj5kxw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"inline-related-posts-112866\" class=\"widget inline-related-posts alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"widget-title-wrap clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\">More on <span><a class=\"category-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/topic\/ipad\/\" title=\"iPad\">iPad<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"inline-related-posts\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/13\/google-pad-vs-ipad-features\/\">5 Things Google Must Do to Make Its Tablet&nbsp;Competitive<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/11\/what-to-read-this-weekend-the-ipad-edition\/\">What To Read This Weekend: The iPad&nbsp;Edition<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/07\/verizon-iphone\/\">Video: Verizon CEO So Wants an&nbsp;iPhone<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-related-posts-article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/04\/06\/netflix-reviewed-the-ipads-first-killer-app-2-2-3\/\">Netflix Reviewed: The iPad&#8217;s First &#8220;Killer&nbsp;App?&#8221;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"brand-icon gigaom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\" title=\"Visit: GigaOM - This is a description.\">Tech Insider<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"widget-bottom clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The app comes from Atomic Antelope, which makes iPhone apps, including one called Bauble that lets you turn your iPhone into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicantelope.com\/bauble\/\">the world&#8217;s most expensive Christmas card<\/a>. The Alice app brings an interactive element to the pages of this children&#8217;s classic, with features that are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicantelope.com\/alice\/\">based on the original illustrations<\/a> and allow readers to stretch Alice&#8217;s body when she comes to the table with the &#8220;Drink Me&#8221; bottle, to throw tarts at the Queen of Hearts and watch them bounce off her, and to rock the baby that turns into a pig. The app costs $8.99, although there&#8217;s also a free &#8220;lite&#8221; version. Chris Stevens, one half of Atomic Antelope, wrote about creating the app <a href=\"http:\/\/recombu.com\/news\/ibrothers-grimm-the-ebook-is-dead-long-live-the-ebook_M11639.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So is this the future of e-books &#8212; every book its own app? It&#8217;s certainly a great example of the kind of full-color and interactivity and motion (using the accelerometer) that isn&#8217;t possible on other e-readers. These kinds of apps could certainly help the tablet app market hit the $8 billion-mark that GigaOM Pro analyst Mike Wolf forecast it would in <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/03\/forecast-web-tablet-app-sales\/\">a recent report on the sector<\/a> (sub req&#8217;d). It&#8217;s also a sign of the creativity that traditional publishers seem to lack, as they try to maintain their traditional stranglehold on book prices in the online world, as Paul Sweeting detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/the-price-of-e-book-progress\/\">this recent GigaOM Pro analysis<\/a>. 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