Marcus du Sautoy, the author of The Num8er My5teries: A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life, writes a long and interesting post on apps and their relationship to literature, non-fiction and children's books.
Taking Wolf Hall and Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland (the apps) as starting points, he makes a strong case for the integration of rich media into literature. He briefly suggests that novelists should consider multiple-platforms at the conception of their work, and just as quickly moves on to explore the potential for non-fiction writers.
I wish he had stood still for a moment. In original enhanced fiction, not interactive footnote references, animated illustrations for children, adaptations for the iPad, or video interviews with the author, lies the greatest potential for rich media fiction. Bring on the literary apps - a few text-based literary journals on the iPad just aren't doing it for me.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/03/marcus-du-sautoy-apps-books
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