Book as iPad App
Multimedia, Multi-touch ebooks and their Future in Libraries
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Resource list
Articles
- Reading list - download the complete list of articles for reading offline
Books
- Breaking the Page - Peter Meyer (preview edition is free)
- Book: A Futurist's Manifesto - Hugh McGuire and Brian O'Leary (read free on the web)
Blogs
Recommended book apps
Fiction and literature
- NYPL Biblion: Frankenstein (free)
- Frankenstein for iPad, iPhone ($4.99)
- Jack Kerouac's On the Road ($16.99)
- The Selected Words of T.S. Spivet ($11.99)
- The Sonnets by William Shakespeare ($13.99)
- The Wasteland for iPad ($13.99)
- Ulysses Seen ($7.99)
Non-fiction
- 1,000 Ultimate Experiences (Lonely Planet) ($4.99)
- Al Gore: Our Choice ($4.99)
- Back in Time ($7.99 for iPad, $4.99 for iPhone)
- Berlin: Wallpaper City Guide ($2.99) (& other Phaidon city guides)
- Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe ($5.99)
- Fotopedia Heritage (free)
- How to Cook Everything ($9.99)
- Intellectual Property Strategy for iPad ($7.99)
- iObsessed Companion (the book) ($2.99)
- LIFE Digital Photo Guide ($14.99)
- The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins ($13.99)
- March of the Dinosaurs ($7.99)
- The Orchestra ($13.99)
- The Particles ($7.99)
- Power of Minus Ten - Cells & Genetics ($1.99)
- Sullivan's List ($2.99)
Reference
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ($3.99)
- Bible+ (Glo for iPad) (free)
- Brain and Nervous System Pro III ($19.99)
- British Library Treasures HD ($5.99)
- British Library 19th Century Historical Collection (free)
- British Library Royal Manuscripts ($4.99)
- Color Uncovered: An Interactive Book for the iPad (free)
- Cyclepedia - Iconic Bicycle Designs ($9.99)
- The Elements: a visual exploration ($6.99)
- Geowalk: 3D World Factbook ($.99)
- Heart Pro III ($8.99)
- History of Jazz: an interactive timeline ($3.99)
- Leafsnap (free)
- Leonardo da Vinci Anatomy ($13.99)
- London: a City Through Time ($13.99)
- London Unfurled for iPad ($2.99)
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary (free)
- NYPL Biblion: World's Fair (free)
- Peterson Birds of North America ($.99)
- Phaidon Design Classics ($28.99)
- Pyramids 3D ($13.99)
- Redshift - Astronomy ($11.99)
- Solar System for iPad ($13.99)
- Solar Walk ($.99)
- Sounds: The Pronunciation App ($5.99)
- Star Walk ($2.99)
Children and Young Adults
- Alice for iPad ($8.99, free lite version available)
- Alice in New York ($3.99)
- Barefoot World Atlas ($4.99)
- Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night ($2.99)
- Bobo Explores Light ($4.99)
- Cat in the Hat ($.99)
- Cathy's Book (teen novel) ($.99)
- Essential Red Riding Hood HD ($.99)
- Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore ($4.99)
- Green Eggs & Ham (& other Dr. Seuss books) ($3.99)
- Goodnight Moon ($4.99)
- Khoya - An Interactive Fantasy Adventure ($4.99)
- The Little Engine That Could ($3.99)
- The Little Mermaid and Other Stories by H. C. Andersen ($4.99)
- March of the Dinosaurs ($7.99)
- The Numberlys ($5.99)
- Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross ($6.99)
- Pop Out! The Tale of Peter Rabbit ($4.99) (& other Pop Out! titles)
- Skulls by Simon Winchester ($13.99)
- The Survivors (young adult novel) ($12.99)
- Three Little Pigs and the Secrets of a Popup Book ($3.99)
- The Three Pandas for iPad & iPhone ($2.99)
- This Too Shall Pass ($6.99)
- The Unwanted Guest ($6.99)
- War Horse ($6.99)
- Wild About Books ($4.99)
- WWF Together - by World Wildlife Fund (free)
See also: Best Book Apps for Kids - Common Sense MediaComics and Graphic Novels
- Age of Bronze "Seen" ($.99)
- Comics by Comixology (free app, comics priced individually)
- CIA: Operation Ajax ($4.99)
- Gutenberg's Revolution - available in NARR8 (free)
- Madefire (free)
- Martin Rowson's The Waste Land "Seen" ($9.99)
- Meanwhile for iOS ($4.99)
- Ulysses "Seen" ($7.99)
- The Wormworld Saga (free)
Short-form
- The Atavist (free, then each title is $2.99)
- Citia: What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly ($9.99)
- Citia: Predictably Irrantional by Dan Ariely (free)
- TED Books (free, then each title is $2.99)
- Colloca: History in an Hour (series, $2.99 each)
Enhanced iBooks (made with iBooks Author)
- Paperless ($9.99) - get in iBooks
- Create your first interactive book using iBooks Author (free in iBookstore)
- Earthquake (free in iBookstore)
- NYPL Point: Frankenstein, Making a Modern Monster (free in iBookstore)
- NYPL Point: John Cage's Prepared Piano (free in iBookstore)
- NYPL Point: E.L. Trouvelot's Astronomical Drawings (free in iBookstore)
- Frankenweenie: An Electrifying Book (free in iBookstore)
- Stylus T. Frog and the Weapons of Mass Construction - about using drawing/painting apps ($4.99 in iBookstore)
- Edwin: the Super Duper Otter (free in iBookstore)
- Polyhedra by Daniella Bertol ($12.99 in iBookstore)
- E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth ($1.99 in iBookstore)
- MoMA Collection Highlights ($9.99 in iBookstore)
- Century of the Child by MoMA ($29.99 in iBookstore)
- Sailor Twain - graphic novel by Mark Siegel ($11.99 in iBookstore)
see also: iBooks Author: Creating Multi-Touch Books for iPad. A talk by Nicole Hennig given at MIT on Jan. 30, 2013.Textbooks
- Inkling (free container app, books priced individually, free sample chapters available, non-textbooks, too)
Publishers to watch
- 3D4Medical
- 955Dreams
- Atomic Antelope
- Citia
- Fotopedia
- Game Collage
- Heuristic Media
- Inkle Studios
- Inkling
- Lonely Planet
- Loudcrow Interactive
- MIT Press
- Moonbot Studios
- Moving Tales
- Oceanhouse Media
- Penguin
- Phaidon
- Picador
- Push Pop Press - no longer making ebook apps, aquired by Facebook
- Throwaway Horse
- Touch Press
- Vito Technology
- Ying Horowitz & Quinn
Libraries to watch
- British Library
- New York Public Library Biblion, and Point
Create your own book apps or interactive books
- iBooks Author
- Inkling Habitat
- Inklewriter (create interactive stories)
- Book Creator for iPad
- Booktype by Sourcefabric (open source)
March 1, 2013 webinar
Slides
- The Book as iPad App - Nicole Hennig
Video demos from the webinar
Digital divide
- Apple donates thousands of iPads to volunteer teachers in low-income areas
- Schools go all iPad (Burlington High School, Boston area)
- Business gives $130,000 to schools for iPads (Montana)
- 10 ways cell phones help people living in poverty
- Africa takes on the digital divide
- Technology director turns cellphones into classrooms (South Africa)
- One tablet per child: technology making a difference (Negroponte's latest: children learning without teachers or classrooms)
- Ivan's story (iPad success story for boy with disabilities)
Book as iPad App online course
Nicole Hennig is an independent user experience professional, teaching and inspiring educators and librarians about mobile technologies and the user experience of e-reading. Previously she was web manager & head of user experience for the MIT Libraries.
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