{"id":11348,"date":"2011-04-30T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2012-04-26T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:57:44","slug":"tomorrows-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/04\/30\/tomorrows-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Well done, Al Gore!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22872218?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Al Gore&#8217;s new interactive book &#8211; click the right arrow to view.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Following up on his movie about the environment, &#8216;An Inconvenient Truth&#8217;, Nobel laureate Al Gore has published an interactive book named &#8216;Our Choice&#8217; which can be downloaded from Apple&#8217;s App Store for $5.  (Not via iBooks).  It is simply superb and you would expect no less from a member of Apple&#8217;s Board of Directors.  Whether you agree with the content is not the point here.  This is a peek into the future of books and I recommend its purchase with great enthusiasm.  The level of interactivity &#8211; photos, charts, videos, voiceovers &#8211; is beautifully done.<\/p>\n<p>The application used to design and create the book was created by a couple of Apple engineers (no surprises there!) at a business aptly named <a href=http:\/\/pushpoppress.com\/ourchoice\/ target=_blank>Push Pop Press<\/a> and the exciting part is that they hope to release a Mac desktop application which will allow anyone to emulate the technology in Gore&#8217;s book.  Imagine the possibilities with photo books &#8211; clickable voice overs, pictures which enlarge and fold out when clicked, videos in &#8216;how to&#8217; manuals, you name it.  It should work well for both the art and technology sides of photography.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to get my copy, which will put the simple eBooks I have created to shame.  Click &#8216;My Books&#8217; at the right to see these.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sadly Push Pop Press has been acquired by scummy Facebook and the book app will never see the light of day.  Look <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/04\/26\/hubble\/ target=_blank>here<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done, Al Gore! Al Gore&#8217;s new interactive book &#8211; click the right arrow to view. Following up on his movie about the environment, &#8216;An Inconvenient Truth&#8217;, Nobel laureate Al Gore has published an interactive book named &#8216;Our Choice&#8217; which can be downloaded from Apple&#8217;s App Store for $5. (Not via iBooks). It is simply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/04\/30\/tomorrows-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tomorrow&#8217;s books<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11360,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}