PSFK 10/15:
A user-friendly interface provides easy access to any section or topic, and the program is filled with virtual tours, video, maps and artwork to bring the story to life. Glo runs on Windows only at this point (using up a whopping 18 gigs of disk space), and needs to be connected to the internet to work.
It is currently going for $50 on Amazon.
Glo interests me for two reasons:
First, from a purely business perspective, I can see interactive platforms like this becoming common (although hopefully less computer intensive) for all books. You can imagine shuffling through topic clouds on your Kindle, or analyzing reading progress, etc. The difference, I think, will be that the exploratory stuff will be user-generated, and probably even the platform it sits on will be open source. Although I look forward to a more interactive reading experience, I do not share these guys' belief (Thanks, John) that the hard copy will become a thing of the past -- at least not anytime soon and at least not fiction.
Secondly, how can they be sufficiently generic to please most Christians? Their target audience is likely to have strong opinions on interpretation, relevant details, etc. Yet, they have notes for each section and videos acting out the stories. It seems people -- including church authorities -- would find things to get pissy about, and I wonder how that will affect their bottom line.
