Watching books become bits
I remember the thrill of the “choose your own adventure” books from my childhood. My favorite was a time-traveling series in which you got to be various famous people throughout history (for me, I preferred being Miyamoto Musashi). Now, publisher ChooseCo is going to revitalize the genre, as well as update it for the Kindle and iPhone – another great example of the possibilities of these new devices.
[via Jezebel]
Here’s a clever way to take a stale publishing business and revitalize it using new technology: Freehand Music is the first publisher to begin publication of piano sheet music for the Amazon Kindle (the large-screen Kindle DX version specifically).
While the scores may appear a bit pricey at between $1 and $4 each, the pricing appears to be on par with the typical discount seen thus far for electronic books. [via Wired]