Multimedia - The Future of Books?

Atomic Antelope Ltd. received a good deal of hype recently for their iPad version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Taking advantage of the iPad's different capabilities, the ebook contains stylized full-color illustrations, animation, and interactive elements (“Tilt your iPad to make Alice grow as big as a house, or shrink to just six inches tall”). Atomic Antelope describes their product as “the digital pop-up book for a Blade Runner generation”. Would young readers be interested? Most definitely. I think that the Alice book clearly shows that there is a lot of potential for mixed media ebooks. Check out the video below.

Alice for the iPad [video]. (2010). Retrieved 1 August, 2010, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw