There used to be two kinds of guidebooks for tourists: books whose pages were filled with tiny text alone and books where photographs complemented text content. Ebooks have made it possible to embed sound, movies, links to external information sources and functionality in books. Let’s take a look at a modern travel guidebook, and how it can benefit from multimedia.

A travel guide titled ”The Gems of Nice and French Riviera” is used here as a sample multimedia book. First, let’s see how the book looks on an Apple iPad tablet.

Here’s the multimedia book on the Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablet:

More information about the book and free sample chapters are available on the product page.