All About E-books
Posted by goodmind on April 14th, 2008
The digital book concept has been tinkered with by various business enterprises, but has yet to yield anything worth writing home about. Unless of course you’re a blogger. In our opinion, the idea is solid, could be spectacular, but is too easily bogged down by mediocre execution (ahem, Kindle).
It seems most people, even the folks at Amazon, are content to sit back and wait for Apple to transform and revolutionize the reading experience via compact digital platform, designed specifically to exceed our half-formed, and poorly articulated expectations about e-books. That’s why we were pleasantly surprised to see Storytelling with Google Maps, and even more surprised to learn Google technology isn’t behind the project, it’s merely the vehicle.
Penguin Books has collaborated with Six to Start, an alternative gaming firm, to create an online reading experience unlike any other;
“readers follow the protagonist’s adventures step by step across the world using Google Maps, with text presented in the technology’s information bubbles at each point along the way.” (via Springwise)
We’ll know the concept has truly taken off when Google Maps responds with a fiction section, which would probably be a relief for those literally exposed by the service’s quest for authentic realism.
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