SVG Text in iBooks Fixed Layout

Here's a really cool video from those awesome eBookNinjas, showing some crazy sweet stuff you can do with SVG text in the iBooks fixed layout format. This is a children's picture book their e-production company eBookArchitects has put together (kudos to Bridget!), and I have to say it really excites me about the possibilities for more advanced graphic novels.



Being able to wrap and warp text while still having it remain interactive for functions such as highlighting and dictionaries - or the read-aloud feature displayed here - is a really critical step in creating complex illustrated books that can retain the elements that make ebooks so awesome in the first place. I've been following these guys for awhile now, as well as many others working on these problems, and eBookArchitects are definitely one of the leaders in this field. So if you've got an ebook project that requires complex formatting, you really need look no further.