Stephen Fry has invaded the App Store with two pricey digital add-ons for the second volume of his autobiography The Fry Chronicles. The question is, will you shell out for the Stephen Fry app? Read on for more details…
Stephen Fry, with some help from Penguin, has launched his myFry app in the App Store, priced at £7.99, which is pretty pricey considering it appears to be a book, tagged with a pretty graphic. It’s built to be navigated in a non-linear way, and it’s colour coded into four categories: people, subjects, feelings, and ‘Fryisms’.
Stephen Fry is also launching an eBook version of his autiobiography o the iBookstore, which has additional videos, a slideshow, and web inks, which is priced at £12.99.
Jeremy Ettinghausen, Penguin’s Digital Publisher, said: “We’ve been waiting for the right book to go to town on. With the latest generation of eBook reading software and a most willing author we could add extra audio-visual material inside the book to illustrate and enhance the text and I’m sure that we will see many more enhanced titles appearing over the coming months.”
The app does look beautiful, as you can see from the video below, but are users prepared to cough up £8-£13 for apps or enhanced eBooks?
Out now | £7.99 and £12.99 | App Store
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