Duarte’s Resonate now Available on iBooks
Duarte, the presentation design company, have released their latest book, Resonate, in iBooks using iBooks Author:
The app enabled our designers to create and convey content not possible on the printed page. Resonate’s original print publication contained references to online multimedia content, but it was a separate experience from reading the book. With the iPad’s ability to to[sic] support interactive applications and multimedia, the reader is able to transition seamlessly between static and multimedia content.
Congratulations to the team at Duarte!
I’m personally happy because I held off buying this book because their design books just scream out to be interactive e-books; print just cannot and does not do them justice.
Any author that today does not write with the interactive e-book medium in …
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The book itself is changed. I’m putting the finishing touches on a manifesto I hope to share soon, and I found myself writing differently because I understood that the medium that was going to be used to acquire, consume and share the book was different.
When you think about writing a book or other content …
