Solar System for iPad vs EBC Reader

A breakthrough electronic book about our Solar System, offering hours of interactive exploration and presenting a treasure trove of visual information. Bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insightful and surprising text are a wealth of beautiful 3D objects, movies, images, animations, and diagrams, all fully interactive, richly detailed and accurately based on real scientific data. Set the heavens in motion in an interactive orrery that allows you to control the orbits of the moons and planets, observing them from any viewpoint with breath-taking surface detail. View the latest imagery returned by both manned and robot spacecraft, beautifully presented on the iPad screen. Then double-tap any astronomical object to jump directly to its chapter in the interactive book. Solar System for iPad is brought to you by RGB (creators of The Elements) and Faber & Faber (London’s greatest independent publisher). It raises the bar yet again on what an interactive book can be. A perfect gift for anyone with an iPad: Solar System allows the imagination to roam free from Mercury to Pluto and beyond. ------------ Awards: Winner of the FutureBook Digital Innovation Prize (The Bookseller Industry Awards) – March 2011 ------------ Reviews: “There is so much to this application that I can only begin to scratch the surface on its offerings. As with The Elements the content and presentation truly make learning fun and inspiring.” - WIRED Magazine “The new Solar System for iPad app is an amazing and extraordinarily attractive resource for amateur astronomers... an out-of-this-world digital book that is as informative as it is beautiful. It’s a stellar example for other reference app makers on how to best take advantage of the tablet medium.” - USA Today, Marc Saltzman ------------ Features: • Exclusive theme song by Björk • More than 150 beautifully presented story pages • Richly Illustrated with interactive diagrams, videos and 3D objects • Over 40 rotatable and zoomable 3D astronomical objects • Over 600 images from NASA, ESA and JAXA space missions • Detailed captions including technical data • Live astronomical information from Wolfram|Alpha® ------------ Languages: English, German, Japanese ------------ About the author: Leading science writer and former radio astronomer Marcus Chown is cosmology consultant to New Scientist magazine and the author of numerous books including The Quantum Zoo (known internationally as Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You).

EBC Reader allows you to read eBooks, in a simple easy to use and immersive format. Login with your EBC username and password to start using EBC reader. EBC Reader toolset allows you to dynamically browse your book and interact with your text, highlighting, copying and searching. You can easily buy and download titles and read them on the go. It is a hassle free means of having your entire legal library with you all the time. Reading on your Reader is just like reading from the book, only it gets better, as it provides a personalised reading experience. Features: - Tap on a book to start reading it - Flip through pages conveniently - Touch, Hold and Swipe to highlight the relevant passages - Single Search Across all eBooks, Notes and Annotations - Make highlights and copy-to-notes throughout your book and see My Booknotes for all your notes in the same place. - Create your own notebooks and clip them for collating your research. - Search any word or phrase to the farthest page - Change the themes as per your comfort - Create notes pertaining to the eBooks or personal notebooks of your case-files - Share your notes by emailing, through evernote, printing them or through social media.