I book design research

i finally feel like ive got more of an idea for my visual style after researching interactive and responsive websites and i certainly plan on using the same style for my i book. i dont have an ipad so researching i books and what they looked like was reliant on images that i could find on google, some ebook pages and what ive gleaned from i books author. essentially the ibooks themselves are a lot like mini contained websites and they have some intriguing interactive elements that i can use to make my content more engaging.

http://accesstechnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012_01_15_archive.html
ive noticed that large background images create some interesting backgrounds, something that i plan on using in my website anyway, and that a landscape positioning was most commonly used. i'd like to manipulate a scroll across style and have my videos pop out into a mini screen with the main page along with my image gallery, since i have designed some patterns i'd also like to place greater emphasis on them so i plan on using my patterns as frames and borders ( much like my website but perhaps more so within the ibook) the content would also be placed centrally rather than to the side and i'd love to iclude some kind of animation ( perhaps a butterfly flapping its wings or something along those lines).

using the pop out screen's like the one above could be useful in incorporating captions, references and extra short facts.

http://www.bestinteractiveebooks.com/2012/02/the-guardians/

http://eideard.com/2012/01/19/apple-reinvents-the-textbook-with-interactive-ibooks-2-for-ipad/

the page above is one of my favourites, i love the logo and the font as well as the simple black background which really offsets the each section, i also really like how each aspect is separated by sharp photographs which gives it a very fun appearance - ideally i'd like to place my navigation with myself con tainted buttons at the bottom of the page and again i'd like some form of popout scroll along photo gallery.