"Solar System for iPad", just released.

From Marcus Chown:

Thought you might be interested in "Solar System for iPad", just released.

My first ever iPad book (music written by Björk)!

Video review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbGGe7B77VQ

iTunes...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/solar-system-for-ipad/id406795422?mt=8

USA Today...
http://tinyurl.com/3xkkenv

Making of the App...
http://futurebook.net/content/appy-days

And from publishers Faber & Faber:

London, England—4 January 11—Solar System for iPad, the first publication to emerge from the recently announced partnership between Faber and Faber and Touch Press, is now available worldwide to download from the Apple iTunes App Store.


Eight months in development, and with a production budget approaching 1 trillion dollars (if you count location filming by NASA), Solar System for iPad sets a new standard for interactive books. The title combines stunning fully manipulable, space data based 3D realizations of the planets and moons of our solar system, with an intelligent bespoke text by best-selling Faber author and former CalTech radio astronomer Marcus Chown whose best-selling popular science books include Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and the recently published We Need To Talk About Kelvin. The Solar System for iPad is a highly interactive book created specifically for digital media and using stunning imagery, custom-made animations and video as well as integrated scientific data from NASA and other space agencies curated by Planetary Visions (planetaryvisions.com).

This app also includes a new song by Bjork that plays once on the very first launch. This haunting and majestic track has been specially adapted by Björk from her forthcoming Biophilia project and for the moment is available only in Solar System for iPad.

This new electronic book follows on from The Elements, the runaway best seller published by Touch Press to coincide with the launch of the iPad. Over 160,000 copies have now been sold, and The Elements has just won a place in the forthcoming Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition at the London Design Museum.

Theodore Gray, creator of The Elements, comments, “What sets Solar System for iPad apart more than anything is that it is not just an app or reference guide or tour, it’s a real honest-to-goodness book you can sit down and read.”