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The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' Hits iBooks as Free Animated e-Book

I can't delete it!

I'm not taking sides on whether this is a good or bad iBook. Suffice it to say, that it's really slow on my 3GS. That's fine... I have an old phone. BUT I'm having major problems trying to delete it!! I can't remove it from my phone (hitting delete doesn't do it.) And even when I click "Do Not Sync Books" in iTunes, something overrides it and it's replicated back. I'm doing a full wipe/restore now to hopefully fix this.

Maybe the Blue Meanies took over my iPhone?
 
I thumbed through the book on my iPhone 4 and I have to say I was quite impressed. It looks like the creators had a lot of fun making it. Even if you're not a fan of a content it's more of a "you can do this too" example for iBooks, and it succeeds.

As a Beatles fan I liked the animation, the video clips, the audio clips and all the little touches on this book. Even if it is aimed towards a younger audience I enjoyed it, and the price was right too. :)
 
Dreadful

Downloaded it... it shows all the shortcomings of an animated book on the ibooks platform.

I found it annoying and couldn't bring myself to tun past page 4.

Pretty bad. Steve would have never have let this go into publication on iBooks (there I said it).

Free or not, save the world some bandwidth and pass on it.
 
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Rip John Lennon.
 
NameUndecided said:
It's fun, and I wouldn't have been disappointed if I'd paid [less than $10] for it.

It certainly well illustrates the shortcomings of an interactive ebook over a full on app though, through its accidental taps and page turns on a book that doesn't fully fit the screen. Most notably, it demonstrates the lack of what would have been a very welcome fullscreen mode on illustrated books -- a new and very nice feature in iBooks that I guess is only available for more text-based titles.
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You are correct — the full-screen feature is primarily for text-based titles.

This is what is called a "fixed-layout" ePub, and the format cannot take advantage of the full-screen feature. Rather, the format is intended to represent what a physical copy of the same book would look like.

My company has produced a couple of these fixed-layout ePubs for the iBooks store. They're certainly not the easiest things to code! But I personally really like the look.
 
This album's great, but in the context of The Beatles' discography, it is a rather weak effort imo.

Drunken Master said:
:rolleyes:

Yeah, sure.

I'd like to see you name 10 pop-rock songs from the '60s better than 'A Day in the Life', 'Strawberry Fields', 'Eleanor Rigby' or 'I Am The Walrus'.

Only Jimi Hendrix was on that level back then and they weren't even competing within the same sub genres.
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I can name thirteen.

Wouldn't it Be Nice
You Still Believe in Me
That's Not Me
Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
I'm Waiting for the Day
Let's Go Away for Awhile
Sloop John B
God Only Knows
I Know There's an Answer
Here Today
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Pet Sounds
Caroline, No

The Beatles were good, but The Beach Boys were king.
 
Icaras said:
Like Drunken Master points out, if you can name another band who has a discography as vast as the Beatles, with as much pioneering studio analog techniques over the years as they had, then by all means, we're listening. ;)

You go and try and produce some of their hits on nothing but analog 4 track tape decks, simple reverb effects, and without a computer in sight, and lets see what you come up with.
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The Rolling Stones.
 
the8thark said:
Agreed 100%. Over rated and under talented. Songs with the same lyric line repeated over and over and over and over and over.

I'm sure Steve Jobs is smiling from up above that more of his beloved Beatles are on iTunes. But for the rest of us with a brain we just roll our eyes and sigh.

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I admit some of their early musical techniques were pretty good for the time. But they go and spoil it by writing by writing lyrics so repetitive boring and bad it makes me and many others not want to listen to the good music.

(Only the music part is good, the lyrics part is so bad it boggles the mind how lyrics that bad were ever that famous. I don't understand this).

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Moonshadow
Father And Son
Another Saturday Night
The First Cut Is The Deepest
Morning Has Broken
Peace Train
Longer Boats
Where Do The Children Play
Sad Lisa
Sitting

There you go. 10 songs from the same era of music. Sure it's not the same musical techniques, and a lot of it is acoustic. But the music and lyrics are 10x better. I quite like Cat Stevens music. And I was born like 20 years after he starting singing. So I cant say that is my era of music it's not.

But I can appreciate the best from each era of music. Cat Stevens and Jimi Hendrix were some of the best in their era. The Beatles were not.
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+1
Cat Stevens is so much better!
 
Dedicated to Steve Jobs?

On the page with the Copyright info, it says "For Steve" at the top. Is it for Steve Jobs or was it originally in the paper copy for another steve?
 
Davidgr said:
I'm not taking sides on whether this is a good or bad iBook. Suffice it to say, that it's really slow on my 3GS. That's fine... I have an old phone. BUT I'm having major problems trying to delete it!! I can't remove it from my phone (hitting delete doesn't do it.) And even when I click "Do Not Sync Books" in iTunes, something overrides it and it's replicated back. I'm doing a full wipe/restore now to hopefully fix this.

Maybe the Blue Meanies took over my iPhone?
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Ditto.

It's cute and well done, but now I'd like to remove it. The override of my selections in iTunes when syncing books is a bit irksome.

:(
 
eternalife said:
To name a few: :D
Communication Breakdown
Dazed and Confused
Good Times Bad Times
Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid
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I get the Led out and all, but those are some of their most shamefully cock-rocky.

AppleScruff1 said:
The Rolling Stones.
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Not as much quality material as The Beatles but close. Have to love Gimme Shelter, Paint It Black, Get Off My Cloud and Jumpin' Jack Flash though.

the8thark said:
13986985But I can appreciate the best from each era of music. Cat Stevens and Jimi Hendrix were some of the best in their era. The Beatles were not.
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I'm sorry, but we can't be friends.
 
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How can a free book post turn into love/hate Beatles thread? Who can argue with getting something for free?

As for The Beatles being the most over-rated, etc. blah blah. Anyone who knows anything about music of the 1960s will tell you that they actually created the path, rather than just following it, like almost every other band of that decade. Genre's aside, the creativity, the art, the production, the progression from Please, Please Me to Revolver, to Pepper, to Abbey Road.. come now. I dislike Pink Floyd (a lot) but I can objectively look at them and say they had a big influence on may acts.

But seriously for a moment, how many artists/bands can you name with 3 "consecutive" albums, less than 24 months for all releases (Dec. '65 through Jun. '67), with quality and innovation as Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper (1967). Let's get real. Go listen to those albums and you tell me who was setting the pace for the 1960s.

Didn't Mariah Carey (spelling?) just tie or break The Beatles chart success for #1 records all-time? I think I read that somewhere. Well, they did it in about 7 years. Only Eminem sold more records in the first decade of the 21st century. Do you think Eminem will be selling 30m records per 10 years, 40 years from now? Don't think so. It's not a coincidence that each new generations takes The Beatles for themselves, as evidence by their sales.

The band of my generation, for me, was Nirvana. The band of all-time, for me, was The Beatles.

Bryan
 
I love the Beatles but I don't like the format of this book. If this is the future of digital books, I'll stick with the real thing. Why not size it properly for the screen?
 
Dillenger said:
The Beatles White Album = Masterpiece
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1st album I actually plunked down my own own hard earned cash for.
It was well worth the hours spent pulling weeds in the gladiola fields!
Although, I am still learning to appreciate Number 9.

I was so pissed when my step da wouldn't let us watch the Yellow Submarine on TV. The book is fine on the Ipad tho.
 
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