Paid Content (via Gizmodo) caught a pretty interesting presentation by Penguin CEO John Makinson in London on Tuesday. The topic? iPad Books…er Apps. He sees ebooks hitting 10 percent of book sales next year (this year 4%) and with ‘books’ like these, that doesn’t seem to be out of the question. Also check the presentation below.
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Penguin is not using the ePub format for these ‘books’, rather building the applications in html according to Makinson. Some fun facts:
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