iPad books have broken cover with Penguin showing its first demos of titles for the Apple iPad. We’re still not sure when the iBook store will hit the UK but read on and you can get a taste of what to expect from iPad books…
Penguin has shown forthcoming iPad books for a whole spectrum of ages. Classic kids character Spot the dog makes an appearance in the iPad books demo video with a paint box that leads to a game where you can colour in Spot and another game where shaking the iPad messes up a room and then lets you drag and drop to tidy up.
Other more serious iPad books make an appearance in the Penguin demo with two intriguing titles from Dorling Kindersley. The Human Body adds the ability to zoom in on different parts of the anatomy (which is a little gory) and includes videos like one of a beating heart.
Dorling Kindersley’s Starfinder is arguably the most innovative of the iPad books shown by Penguin making use of the iPad’s built-in compass and GPS to let you point the device at the sky to identify specific stars and galaxies.
The Penguin iPad books demo is exciting because it shows just how the iBook store could shake up the way we look at ebooks. Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson says it will be “embedding audio, video and streaming into everything” it does.
With iPad books capable of looking so impressive, Amazon needs to hurry up with the next generation Kindle and Apple probably feels confident in its negotiations with the publishers. But does the Penguin iPad books demo make you eager to get your hands on them?
Due TBC | £TBC | Penguin (via Paid Content)
