You can also visit the Perfect Killer web site which has many source documents and details about the substantial fact on which the fiction is based.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Virtual Tour: headed for iPod Video?

I'd be interested in your opinion of whether a "Virtual Tour" of Perfect Killer works.

So much of the book is NON-fiction that I'm trying to give readers a sense of the people, places and things in the book. I have keyed a lot of the photos to specific passages in the book, and have also gathered thumbnails categorized by place.

I've used Google Earth Pro for some of the tours (such as the volcanic cones in the Napa Valley) but fear that the video files are too large for most people to download well. All of t his may actually work better as an e-book where the passages from the book text are hyperlinked to the local device, thus allowing instant access and better context sensitivity ... Maybe even works as an "audio-visual" book for something like the video iPod ... the images and video would change as appropriate to fit the audio ... sort of like a slideshow.

The Virtual Tour is at:

http://www.perfectkiller.com/VirtualTour/IttaBena/

Obviously this is an experimental project and I'd very much appreciate your comments