Turning a classic book into an app takes more than just formatting the text for a digital screen.
For Space Dog Books, a new interactive publishing company that makes eBook apps for the iPad, adapting Robert Louis Stevenson‘s classic adventure novel Treasure Island into an app, meant making it interactive.
In an interview with eBookNewser, Victoria Davis, founder/CEO of Space Dog Books explained their approach: “We always design with story in mind and we always make sure interactivity is based on content and works within context. For a classic like Treasure Island, a long novel, we paid close attention to enhance an immersive reading experience and not take the readers out their own personal encounter with the story.”
Aside from the classic text, the app includes animations, songs and sound effects based on the original story.