Penguin Demonstrates iPad-Bound Books: Amazing, but Are These Really "Books"?

If publishers (and, more importantly, the public) really embrace the iPad, we're going to be seeing more than just black-text-on-white books--if you wanted that, you'd buy a Kindle, not a giant iPhone with Wi-Fi, a huge LCD, and a top-of-its-class mobile processor. But then, are these crazy game/video/audio hybrids really "books"? If Penguin's amazing examples are a sign of things to come, we may be asking that question quite often.

Said Penguin's CEO, John Makinson, at an event this week:

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