iTunes LP gets it's first interactive comic book.

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LP is formerly known as "Project Cocktail".

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/09/11/is-this-apples-e-book-trojan-horse/?section=magazines_fortune

Take a look at the Mayhem comic iTunes LP ($1.99), and it’s easy to see the potential of book or magazine sales over Apple’s digital store. For starters, Apple has amazing reach – there are more than 100 million iTunes accounts connected to credit cards, which is a sizable audience. In the Mayhem iTunes LP itself there is a beautiful flow to the action; new panels zoom into the foreground as others fade away.

And it’s not just text and images; both audio and video come along with the package. The interface is designed so that it would obviously work nearly as well on a touch-sensitive tablet – or even on an iPhone – as it does on a full-fledged PC.

Perhaps that’s because Apple itself had a hand in designing this digital version. While hanging out with Gibson, I also briefly spoke with the two creators of the Mayhem iTunes LP, Sam Herz, one of Apple’s user interface engineers for the iTunes Store, and Barry Munsterteiger, creative director for rich media and Internet technologies.

Me: Disney and Apple have a close relationship. Maybe this is one of the reasons why Disney purchased Marvel Comics last week.:shrug:

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1. Ok, since nobody gives a shit about this, I downloaded it.

.. and it's impressive, but not as much as I thought it would be.

It's certainly better than the PDF based comics that are out now.

So, I'm talking to myself because I'm the only one that cares about the new LP feature.:cry:

[onehandle]

2. Whoa. I hadn't thought of that.

This may explain why Steve Jobs is still scoffing at the Kindle.

And the 'iTablet' cometh next year.

This could be huge.


On iTunes LP: I only really thought about this from the music point of view. I think they should have made the LP files Apple Lossless, but the record companies would have had a fit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. They talked about this during Comicon

I didn't realize they were out already