The Next-Generation Digital Book

in Books, e-books, Technology | May 12th, 2011 16 Comments

There will be a day — maybe it’s already here; maybe it was always here — when the Kin­dle will look incred­i­bly retro. Mike Matas, once a design­er of user inter­faces at Apple and now co-founder of Push Pop Press, may make that day of visu­al reck­on­ing come soon­er rather than lat­er. The demo above (which is eas­i­ly worth a thou­sand words) lets you peer into the near future.. Text, images, audio, video and inter­ac­tive graph­ics — they’ll come togeth­er in a seam­less read­ing expe­ri­ence, mak­ing the tra­di­tion­al ebook look entire­ly one dimen­sion­al. You can down­load the book on dis­play, Al Gore’s “Our Choice,” on iTunes here.


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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 3:57 am

     Yeah, but try read­ing that in direct sun­light :-)

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 3:57 am

     Yeah, but try read­ing that in direct sun­light :-)

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 3:57 am

     Yeah, but try read­ing that in direct sun­light :-)

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 3:57 am

     Yeah, but try read­ing that in direct sun­light :-)

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 4:00 am

     That oth­er com­ment was­n’t meant to belit­tle the appli­ca­tion by the way, it’s just that it’s not com­pe­ti­tion for e‑book read­ers, they’re not doing the same thing. E‑book read­ers are just that, for sim­u­lat­ing the book expe­ri­ence. Bells and whis­tles are great but they make it into a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence.

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 4:00 am

     That oth­er com­ment was­n’t meant to belit­tle the appli­ca­tion by the way, it’s just that it’s not com­pe­ti­tion for e‑book read­ers, they’re not doing the same thing. E‑book read­ers are just that, for sim­u­lat­ing the book expe­ri­ence. Bells and whis­tles are great but they make it into a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence.

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 4:00 am

     That oth­er com­ment was­n’t meant to belit­tle the appli­ca­tion by the way, it’s just that it’s not com­pe­ti­tion for e‑book read­ers, they’re not doing the same thing. E‑book read­ers are just that, for sim­u­lat­ing the book expe­ri­ence. Bells and whis­tles are great but they make it into a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence.

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  • Paul says:
    May 13, 2011 at 4:00 am

     That oth­er com­ment was­n’t meant to belit­tle the appli­ca­tion by the way, it’s just that it’s not com­pe­ti­tion for e‑book read­ers, they’re not doing the same thing. E‑book read­ers are just that, for sim­u­lat­ing the book expe­ri­ence. Bells and whis­tles are great but they make it into a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence.

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  • Aureliofernandez says:
    May 14, 2011 at 12:14 am

    only geeks and une­d­u­cat­ed peo­ple likes e‑books. 

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  • Lenny says:
    May 15, 2011 at 6:23 am

    i don’t see this as open cul­ture

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  • weiwei11 desk says:
    May 16, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    Thank for shar­ing. You will be inter­est­ed in  chanel bags online shop­ping  or  new chanel hand­bag.

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  • Paula Goodale says:
    May 18, 2011 at 7:15 pm

     nice­ly demon­strat­ed, but I won­der how much of the book will actu­al­ly be read… and the kin­dle com­par­i­son is invalid for exact­ly that rea­son…  kin­dle is about the joy of pure unadul­ter­at­ed, qui­et, con­tem­pla­tion of the writ­ten word, immers­ing your­self in the text rather than look­ing for a quick mul­ti­me­dia fix… appli­ca­tions will be com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent… this lends itself more to explo­ration and inter­ac­tive styles of learn­ing… there’s a place for both!

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  • Chana Messer says:
    May 19, 2011 at 8:39 pm

     Amaz­ing!!!

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  • Chana Messer says:
    May 19, 2011 at 8:39 pm

     Amaz­ing!!!!

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  • Anonymous says:
    May 24, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    err the Kin­dle is already retro! no? here’s my opin­ion about it :) http://corporateedge.com/blog/touch/

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  • paula's choice says:
    July 17, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    You can down­load the book on dis­play, Al Gore’s “Our Choice,” on iTunes here.

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