The document discusses the rise of ebooks and multimedia content on tablets. It notes that non-fiction stories were well-suited to tablets and the iPad's high resolution changed expectations for eReaders. It then talks about how literary magazines began offering digital content like audio and video essays and how video essays grew in popularity, being incorporated into college classes. The document expresses the author's interest in creating a multimedia thesis utilizing video and audio and discusses tools like iBook Author that enabled such a project.
3. Al Gore invents the
iBook
Not really. But makes a great consumer iBook.
Works with his pals at Apple on Our Choice.
4. Non-fiction leads
the way
Fact-based storytelling well-suited to tablets.
The iPads amazing resolution changed what we think
of as eReaders. Now, 12% of American adults have a
tablet
9. iBook Author born
Came out in February.
Consumer friendly version of Gores software.
Allowed me to sketch out what I want to do.
10. my iBook sketch
Meeting scheduled with
WBGH/Frontline,
Institute of the Future of
the Book. Trading
messages with Moonbot.
Want to explore other
software options.
Consider this a sketch, a
rough cut, a first draft....