paidContent:UK: Penguin's Upcoming iPad books

[XaviorK8]

Really nice !

Your kids will love "Nimbus Littling & the Flu from Nebtune 2" as well.

Finally a hero who is a positive influence on our children !

Her books are wildly entertaining and incredibly well illustrated. The music is stunning and the writing is clever and whimsical. The book received rave reviews. Definitely worth it.

[buzzlightyear10]

future of books!

[aseohosting]

very informative video. Ill be back..

[Soulshiner1]

youtube.com/watch?v=IbnmJSFrVi­M

is far better

[manuelcoolabah]

ask for free Ip@d here ipad 2 go dot info

[equidaeepub2]

Brilliant!! I love the interactive reading. This book engages all three styles of learning, auditory, kinesthetic and visual. Way to go!!!

[TheMrHelm]

Everyone must buy the accu-text (TM) for their families. It resists bacteria, reduces cleaning and improves accuracy!

[scarsdalemhmclb]

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[jeremykemp]

This is an appstore app and doesn't use the iBooks or the .epub format. If you're interested in this free and open standard, see my video tutorial: vvGrFZdSDww

[MalignantMouse]

So it's an iPhone for children.

They try to demo it, but they end up showing how mostly useless it is.

[SomethingFullofAwful]

i don't think kids will understand "swipe to get to the next page"

[ChrisSketch]

@SomethingFullofAwful I think you underestimate the prowess of a developing mind to grasp new technology. I've seen very young children command the iPhone interface with terrifying fluency.

[CecileSow]

Peut-on encore parler de livre ? Les applications proposées ont plus avoir avec le CD ou le site Internet que le livre.

La démo illustre surtout que l'iPad va amener de nouveaux conportements et usages...

[himsanjun]

iPad looks too huge in this film. Is it because the hands are 5 years old's?

[speedstriker]

FUCK NO! Illiteracy level is already low enough and now they're going to eliminate words altogether?!! /rage

[BoogsterSU2]

I wanna see what Popular Science will look like on the iPad. Hope they're gonna go interactive soon.

[nathanpenny]

Unbelievable. This is going to open up learning opportunities that a textbook could never offer. I'm looking forward to seeing this software.

[uptilthesky]

expensive toy for young kids, it won't appeal to older ones, they've already got their game consoles.

[metalhaze]

@uptilthesky $499 for a toy that your entire family will use regardless of age is an incredible deal.

You forget....It's still a music player, movie watcher, magazine/book reader, app downloadng device that serves tons of purposes. The parents will own it and the kid's will use it under their supervision. Then when they are done with it, mommy takes it to write some emails and read some websites.

[uptilthesky]

@metalhaze

most households have a TV and a PC, iPad doesn't offer many extra functions except e-reader. It's a "nice-to-have" gadget, but I just don't see there's a huge market out there as we already have many multi-function portable devices. As for games, there're PSP, NDS, and they're much smaller and "portable", iPad is too big as a portable game console.

[metalhaze]

@uptilthesky Notice what you said "households have a TV and a PC"

All three of those things DO NOT MOVE.

This an ultraportable device that is lighter and more portable than a laptop that you can take anywhere.

What are you going to give your kids in a long car ride? You going to plop a full sized TV in the car, hook up a PS3, and put your desktop computer in there too?

If you only plan on using the iPad in the household, then you are using it for all the wrong reasons...

[uptilthesky]

@metalhaze

you're talking about a household sharing it, when family spend time together, most of the time it's when they're at home. how often do you take road trip as a family. you want to give your kids something to kill time in the car, PSP and NDS would do it. You're talking about checking emails and watching movie, you can check emails on the phone if you're outside. It's probably good for watching movie, but there're already smaller devices for it.

[metalhaze]

@uptilthesky @uptilthesky Bigger screen equals more possibilities. Watching movies on a tiny PSP screen is nothing compared to having a 9.7 inch screen. Unlike a PSP or a DS that requires multiple handheld devices to play multiplayer games and only one person can use it at a time. You buy two PSP's, and two games and you have already spent more money than an iPad.

[uptilthesky]

@metalhaze

it depends on the age of the kids, if they already got a PSP, they would spend more time on their PSP than a iPad, it's a proper game console, you don't need to connect it with an external joystick, don't know if it's even possible with iPad. I think my problem with iPad is it doesn't bring anything new, something that we don't already have. It just gives us a bigger screen, and I think big portable stuff just defeat its own purpose.

[schlubadubdub]

@metalhaze a netbook is cheaper and has more functionality.

[metalhaze]

@uptilthesky 40% of the apps that are being tested for the iPad for launch day are games. Not to mention Apple has stole gaming market share from both Sony and Nintendo handheld devices.

When kids aren't at home in front of the console, they are going to want a mobile gaming unit. So once again, your claims make no sense

[Giadascript]

Then IPad finally has a camera? The last part (looking at the sky) was a joke, but if it will be possible, than it should contains a camera!

[PeterGreen125]

no it doesn't need one, works with the compass

[metalhaze]

@Giadascript It would be easier with a camera but I don't think it's impossible without one.

With GPS, an accelerometer, and a compass built-in, I don't think you need a camera. The GPS can find where you are standing....and the accelerometer knows how you are holding the device and compass knows which way you are facing.

You don't need a camera, but a camera would be the ideal solution

[abirami94]

I WANT AN IPAD!! D:

[CaravelClerihew]

I wonder if kids who grow up with this will have the same nostalgia 20 years from now that I do when I walk through the kids section of the library.

[storyknife]

Impressive as hell, but for us to really put this to work, we need a better battery.

[metalhaze]

@storyknife really? You need to be referencing a book for over 10 hours straight? I highly doubt you need to be worrying about battery life...

[eireperu919]

john makinson--the man presenting in this video and the CEO who was a large part of penguin's strong performance in 2009, including a 300% rise in ebook sales--knows what he's talking about so tone down the bitching and the negativity.

[b0rk3d]

This is not a book. These are games, already available on iPhone. What's unique about this?

[pkerry12]

do you guys over in the UK and Europe have a release date for the ipad yet???

[kidclam]

I really don't understand all the negativity. This is just the start. In fact its not even released yet. If you all remember the iphone in its infancy and what it is today (just 2 years).

[zybch]

Looks, well, kind of tacky and crap to be honest.

Who the hell wants to read a 'book' on a device like this and have the screen wasted with fake pages (the vampire thing)?

[timtempest]

Nope... just watched it again. Still sucks. Am off to set up my own company to make better than this. See you in a year. Thank you youtube for such an inspirational video.

[timtempest]

This sucks. Seriously? The best they could do? I am so happy about that.

[davemee]

It looks like the brave new world of CDROM publishing in the 90s, where every bit of content needed a separate application (or media!) and lack of interoperability - even on the same device - rendered it painful to use.

The web itself made short work of that world. This is a fool's errand if publishers consider this approach to be the panacea for digital content distribution.

[dsuden]

I predict that, once it takes off, IPad's going to sell well, especially to families, where there will be regular arguments about whose turn it is to use it. Kids and parents are going to love it. It has the potential to take the place of aisles-full of electronic learning games from Walmart and Toys-r-Us. May or may not be "better" than a laptop, but form factor is definitely nicer for kids and less prone to damage. Wipe-able, with no hinges or keys to muck-up, possibly more drop-forgiving.

[nooneknowsnothing]

iPad has 140000 applications and sold a billion. Slate has billion applications & trillion downloads.

[metalhaze]

@nooneknowsnothing If you want to get technical, Apple has 170,000 apps in their app store as of right now.

[meikals]

I hope my iPad doesn't come with that voice over all the time, die clippy die!

[chiptotec]

It's the 90's CD-Rom fever all over again.

[metalhaze]

@chiptotec I thought that was laser disc?? :-D

[Darkenigma28]

Watch this sell like hotcakes in within the next 5 years.

[ytpro27]

If I was caught using this, I'd look like a douch bag. No thanks.

[shiftlessxl]

Gonna love it when the tot slams the iPad into the wall like a normal child, walks on it, spills water on it... I'd need like, 30 dozen iPads for backup.

[metalhaze]

@shiftlessxl It's called "adult supervision".

Yes, it's too bad you can't drop your child on the floor with an iPad and go smoke crack in the other room while you completely ignore it

Gee I really feel for ya

[bumbubi]

Great !! Can't wait !

[MisterLester]

I'm a fan of the iPad idea... but the stuff that Penguin present in the video shows that, basically, they haven't got a clue how consumers are going to use it (which they admit). However, they know that their capacity to capture customer data directly via iPad will mean that they'll learn what works and what doesn't amazingly quickly.

That, plus the direct-selling opportunity that iPad creates, will be the real revolution.

Then again, perhaps we're looking at CD-Roms all over again.

[qwertt14]

i actually think iPad is a fraud, at least for what it is right know, but what Penguin proposes is great. As far as they being clueless about how costumer are useing it they could create an apart-from-normal-use use, and that would be fukkin genious. Imagine your normal use of iPad completely shifted to Penguin's.

[supermaucat]

Absolutely brilliant! Can't wait for the iPad!

[originalrecipes]

Why do people even question this. Don't you people read the news? Microsoft just announced 90 million Windows 7 sales. Thats staggering!!! I'm not surprise. I know for a fact that Windows is just that good. It should have hit 100 million, but that will happen in a day or so. What is Mac? 20 million? LOL

[YUPnNOPE]

i wish apple had made a more definitive category for textbook publishers... that way publishers wouldn't be left wondering if they should make apps or try to fit there textbooks into an epub format..

[appler95]

i love the human body book

[AdrianWerner]

This is nice, but that's not a book anymore. It's a simple edutainment/entertainment software of the type we've been seeing on computers nd websites for almost two decades already

[constantinvicol]

where was that filmed ?during an apple meeting...workshop..or somenthing like this ?it's incredebil i think..it's the future...anti-retro!!

[SwimCharSwim]

This was at Penguin USA's annual meeting, held Wednesday 3/3 in New York City.

[GodLovesMcCain]

without flash it really is just a glorified toy - websites are almost entirely inaccessible with any flash content using it for navigation, charts, featured materials, video or information.

[DavidRobertRoy]

Flash wont work with multi touch, there is no mouse hover for a start.

Flash is both a technical and political issue, and i for one would not re develop any Flash applications for iPad/iPhone support when there is now HTML5 and CSS 3.

[jjcorreia]

@DavidRobertRoy Multitouch is in the latest flash player beta and developers can already try working with it.

[DavidRobertRoy]

@jjcorreia, Multitouch support in the latest beta still means that every Flash app to date needs it's user interface rewritten to support this.

[shoxite]

I love this but I wish APPLE would just say the iPAD is simply an INTERACTIVE EBOOK/ MULTIMEDIA product and not say its better than a laptop.

[yakuzablitz]

And where have they said that? Honestly curious if you can find a source.

[shoxite]

Watch the ipad Keynote and STEVE JOB SAYS it himself. "This is better than a laptop". The keynote is available on apple just search for it.

[ginito]

@shoxite, Jobs said "it works better than a laptop" during the presentation of a certain app because of how you interact with the application and how easy it is to use it and get quick solutions, not because It actually "IS" better. You are misquoting... Do you work for Fox News?

[metalhaze]

@shoxite No it's not better than a laptop. I think you are taking things out of context. Why the hell would Steve Jobs want to canabilze the sales of the best selling hardware division of his company...the laptops?

What he was implying is that the iPad is "ultraportable" and easier to handle and use for lots of tasks than using a laptop. Doesn't make the iPad a better machine.

[Yensid98]

A glimpse into the future. Very exciting!

These are not e-books and are not websites either. It's something completely new. This has the potential to change everything.

[schlubadubdub]

@Yensid98 this is at least 15 years old. It is just like the late 90's CD's (think Encyclopaedia Britannica) that were superseded by the increasing speeds and functionality of the Internet. To make it exclusive to one platform instead of a cross-platform browsers is a step backwards, not forwards.

[AlphaWinky]

Can someone clear up for me why they all laugh at the end when the stars come up?

[SwimCharSwim]

@AlphaWinky because he made a little joke when he said "this one's not really finished yet...".

[AlphaWinky]

Yeah, I got that bit but I don't get what was wrong with it that made him say that.

[times9]

nice,but we need flash

[NookSurfer]

Pretty cool, great way to take advantage of iPads screen

[gaspesla]

Btw, there are already iPhone 3GS astronomy apps that let you hold your iPhone up to the sky like in the video, and they are fantastic! I one I use is called "Star Walk". I'm sure they already have an iPad version ready to roll.

[imfromthepast]

kewel!

[originalrecipes]

I hope they are smart enough to release this for the Microsoft Surface or Tablets first. Why wait for the iPad that we have no idea if its any good at all. Right now you can develop for the Surface and Windows Touchscreen Tablets. Microsoft just sold 90 milliion copies of Windows 7. Clearly squashes the Mac market. So thats the platform people should develop for.

[TubesOnStage]

Who owns a Microsoft Surface? How will you hold a big ass table up to the sky to look at the stars? :-D

iPad is fully multi-touch, not just a layer of some touch functions, and is FAST with a killer screen.

It has the first ever multi-touch office suite. M$ couldn't even write M$ Office to be fully touch driven.

M$ squashes Apple? iPod is #1 player, iPhone #1 smartphone, iTunes is largest music retailer, App Store #1 mobile apps, & Macs own 90% of the US market for computers over $1,000.

[originalrecipes]

Its not just the surface, there are million and millions of Windows Tablets already being used. This iPad thing is just hype. You can have this stuff now, and years before with Windows Tablets. People are just getting fooled with marketing. 95% of the world is Windows. Why bother with anything else. Clearly Window is the best platform.

[custom2473io]

Dude you're cracking me up over here! Yea, CLEARLY Windows is the best platform....

[originalrecipes]

It is. Even Ford has them in their cars. I don't know what the hold up is with other car manufacturers, but if they get on the ball and incorporate Windows Sync.. wow there will be huge sales that will break records. I'm sure of it.

[ginito]

@originalrecipes MS Office director refused to allow the development of a MS Office version (word/excel..) for tablet PCs that natively supports the input and recognition of handwriting, you know why? becuase the director 'hates' styluses. That is how full of imbeciles Microsoft really is.

Microsoft is on the downfall.. check the numbers.

[originalrecipes]

Microsoft is the best and innovative company out there. 90 millions copies of Windows 7 sold proves my point.

[ginito]

@originalrecipes McDonnals is the best and the most healthy restaurant out there, millions of tons of food sold a year proves my point!!!!

you fucking troll..

[qwertt14]

To me the thing MS created that's far beyond Apple inventions is the MS Surface. But it hasn't been spoke of since its first announcement, so...

[originalrecipes]

Don't worry. The Surface systems will be a huge hit. Microsoft just wants it to be perfect and thats why MS is so awesome. They never ship anything unless its near perfect. It was the press that attached Vista. Vista was perfect, nothing wrong with it. It even sold more copies that Mac.

[ElMariachi46]

@originalrecipes Tell me your joking.

[originalrecipes]

Why would I be joking? Australia will have Surface all over there soon. MS was recently there and released SDK, its going to be a huge hit.

[miniroll32]

- It sold more copies than OS X because Windows is more popular globally.

- Vista was 'not' perfect - there were numerous bugs and driver problems with various chipsets.

- They DO ship things that are far from perfect. Thats why Office:Mac 2008 is poor

[originalrecipes]

"It sold more copies than OS X because Windows is more popular globally."

Thanks. I knew someone will come forth and admit that Window is more popular all over the world. :-)

[miniroll32]

Admit what? It something everyone knows - even if a persons an Apple fan. Just because its used more worldwide doesn't mean its better, however.

[nooneknowsnothing]

Yes. But apple also make bad software. 100s of patches for iphone.

[xleo21]

1. ms surface is frikin expensive why would they made an app for it

2. every single tablet that runs a desktop os , wheter mac or windows , sucks and this is not only my opinion is the most cluncky piece of shit

3.this isnt mac vs pc , the ipad runs a "mobile" os designed for multitouch full of multitouch apps , therefore theyre going to make an app for it , it only makes sense

[hullohulloRFC]

i remember that dog

[DecemberFallsSeries]

I used to play games like this on my computer when I was like 5. the only difference is the touch screen, it's not a major thing really is it?

[slayerx709]

@DecemberFallsSeries could suck if ur gonna play fps games

[korwinblue]

*looking through my old games* Exactly! Not only that, but these games taught me how to use a computer. I can see it now: "mommy, why doesn't the screen work?"

[derange123]

I'm not 5 and I don't have kids, but I'd wager that toddlers like painting Spot with their hands before being tucked in by mummy, than sitting behind a computer screen moving a mouse pointer.

[pdongen]

I wonder who'll be the first to introduce 'social reading', e.g. enabling comments on pages in a book.

Or is this already possible with something like a Kindle?

[ArnarJohanns]

@pdongen

THe Microsoft courier will be able to take notes and write into your book.

[cimota72]

The starFinder version is cool - you can do pretty much the same with Pocket Universe by Craic Design on iPhone - it's a bit more 'sciency' but the potential applications are amazing.

[Ecnarb]

Great!

[TS7019]

Good idea for children interaction learning. But unless the price comes way down, consumers will not likely give the iPad to a minor.

[FreeRange9]

@TS7019 you buy one for the household, not the individual....

[LambertxMc]

thats what u think. some parents will do anything for a thier kids to be smart.

[TS7019]

Except to spend more time with them. Besides, the iPad for it's price points to function should be considered a luxury item. For me, I like the iPad and I like Penquin's interactive learning program but right now the iPad price tag seems prohibitive. Just my 2cents.

[Mack786]

lol you act like youre going to buy one for every individual in the house.

Youre going to be buying it for the household. I guess you also didn't buy a TV because its too expensive for your kids lol

[TS7019]

That is actually a good response. Marketing analysts say the iPad will be a success when households purchase more than one product. And ironically, I did buy a HDTV, but the kids use/play it more than I do.

[Mack786]

That is the secret of the iPad though I mean the thing is lets say you buy a nice shiny new phone. That phone is going to cost you more than the iPad will yet only one person will use it.

With the iPad the assumption is that its a household item that everybody including the young ones and even your grandma can just pick up and fiddle with. Nearly a sort of take anywhere around the house item.

As a lifestyle tool in the household its actually pretty damn cheap compared to most gadgets.

[xleo21]

499$ is friking cheap , its cheaper than an unlocked iphone (i think).