Enhanced eBook

JK Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is Coming Out as a Kindle in Motion eBook

30 January, 2018 // 0 Comments

Amazon's Kindle in Motion ebook format is about to get its second Harry Potter ebook. On Thursday Amazon is going to re-release Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated edition as a [Read More ...]

Kindle AR or Kindle VR? Amazon Kindle team is Hiring an AR/VR Software Engineer

2 August, 2017 // 15 Comments

Here's a story that sounds like a 1 April joke, but it really is not. When Amazon launched the Kindle in 2007, they used a primitive and limited ebook format to sell ebooks in the Kindle Store. (It [Read More ...]

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to be Released as Enhanced Kindle in Motion eBook

20 July, 2017 // 2 Comments

Here's some news that will keep Potter fandom on the edge of their sat until September: I've just heard that a new enhanced Harry Potter ebook will be released on 5 September. The first enhanced [Read More ...]

Hugh Howey’s “Wool” Now Available in the Kindle in Motion Enhanced eBook Format

27 February, 2017 // 5 Comments

When Amazon launched its latest enhanced ebook format last August, it did so with little fanfare and only used titles from its publishing division. Now Amazon is converting existing titles and [Read More ...]

Duobook Lets Readers Listen to an Audiobook Exactly Where They Stopped Reading, or Vice Versa

1 January, 2017 // 6 Comments

Four years ago Amazon announced Whispersync for Voice, a Kindle feature which let you sync your reading position with Audible audiobooks. Now a competitor ebook company has finally released an [Read More ...]

Hachette, Booktrack Partner to Stave Off the Inevitable Technological Obscurity of Soundtracked eBooks

21 July, 2016 // 2 Comments

Here's an interesting bit of obscure ebook tech you might want to try before it disappears into the scrapheap of history. PW reports: Hachette’s Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is partnering [Read More ...]

Soundtracked eBooks Are Still a Stunt, and Not (Yet) The Future of eBooks

1 January, 2016 // 4 Comments

The Independent has a puff piece up this week on Booktrack, the four-year-old startup that has been trying without much luck to promote the idea of ebooks with embedded soundtracks. The rustle of [Read More ...]

eBooks May be Selling Well, But eBook Apps Are Doomed

12 December, 2015 // 17 Comments

The NYTimes has discovered the promise of ebook apps (enhancements, embedded multimedia content, etc), but unfortunately they have yet to grasp the pitfalls. Writing for this august publication, [Read More ...]

Google Brings Its 360-Degree Story-Telling App to the iPhone and iPad(*)

26 July, 2015 // 6 Comments

Google has just brought the next great stillborn idea in story-telling to Apple's mobile platform. Launched last year on Motorola devices, Google Spotlight Stories is a platform which enables [Read More ...]

Booktrack Raises Another $5 Million, Still Can’t Explain Why Consumers Would Want a Sound Track in an eBook

21 July, 2015 // 3 Comments

Here's a bit of news that has me scratching my head. PW reports that Booktrack has raised another $5 million in a capital funding round led by investments from COENT Venture Partners and Sparkbox [Read More ...]

Visual Editions Wants to Reinvent the eBook

6 July, 2015 // 32 Comments

It's that time again. Every couple years some outsider comes up with the brilliant idea of reinventing ebooks. If it's not Vook, it's Atavist. If it's not Inkling, it's Colliloquy. If it's not [Read More ...]

Yes, the Success of the “American Sniper” Enhanced Edition is a One-Off

15 February, 2015 // 12 Comments

Many startups have made a go of producing enhanced ebooks, and so far no one has had much luck in creating a real market. But Clare Swanson , writing for Publishers Weekly, thinks that [Read More ...]

Enhanced eBooks Don’t Necessarily Enhance Education

14 April, 2014 // 5 Comments

We've long known that when games and other enhancements are added to ebooks they can distract readers from paying attention to the text, and now it appears that enhancements can have a negative [Read More ...]

Booktrack Raises $3 Million in Funding Round

9 April, 2014 // 2 Comments

eBook startups are giving up on enhanced ebooks left and right as they find that there's simply not enough of a market. That bad luck doesn't seem to be discouraging Booktrack, which announced on [Read More ...]